HIV hides in gut, evading eradication
Researchers at UC Davis have made some surprising discoveries about the body’s initial responses to HIV infection. Studying simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), the team found...
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‘Robo Brain’ – Robots Devouring Internet Info
Robo Brain – a large-scale computational system that learns from publicly available Internet resources – is currently downloading and processing about 1 billion images, 120,000...
Modeling How Neurons Work May Inform Robotics
A highly accurate model of how neurons behave when performing complex movements could aid in the design of robotic limbs which behave more realistically. Multiphoton...
Tumor weaknesses in epigenetics
Scientists have known for decades that cancer can be caused by genetic mutations, but more recently they have discovered that chemical modifications of a gene...
HIV antibodies block infection by reservoir-derived virus
A laboratory study led by scientists from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), lends further...
Travelling by resonance
How nerve cells within the brain communicate with each other over long distances has puzzled scientists for decades. The way networks of neurons connect and...
Protein glue shows potential for use with biomaterials
Researchers at the University of Milan in Italy have shown that a synthetic protein called AGMA1 has the potential to promote the adhesion of brain...
Boosting Memory With Electric Current to Brain
Stimulating a particular region in the brain via non-invasive delivery of electrical current using magnetic pulses, called Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, improves memory, reports a new...
Reprogramming Skin Cells to Mimic Rare Disease
Johns Hopkins stem cell biologists have found a way to reprogram a patient’s skin cells into cells that mimic and display many biological features of...
From Nose to Knee: Biongineered Cartilage Regenerates Joints
Human articular cartilage defects can be treated with nasal septum cells. Researchers at the University and the University Hospital of Basel report that cells taken...
Neuroscientists reverse memories’ emotional associations
Most memories have some kind of emotion associated with them: Recalling the week you just spent at the beach probably makes you feel happy, while...
DARPA Project Starts Building Human Memory Prosthetics
The first memory-enhancing devices could be implanted within four years Lawrence Livermore engineer Vanessa Tolosa holds up a silicon wafer containing micromachined implantable neural devices...
Eye implant developed at Stanford could lead to better glaucoma treatments
Lowering internal eye pressure is currently the only way to treat glaucoma. A tiny eye implant developed by Stephen Quake's lab could pair with a...
Sorting cells with sound waves
Acoustic device that separates tumor cells from blood cells could help assess cancer’s spread. Photo Credit: Illustration Christine Daniloff/MIT Researchers from MIT, Pennsylvania State University,...
Changes in the Eye Can Predict Changes in the Brain
Researchers at the Gladstone Institutes and University of California, San Francisco have shown that a loss of cells in the retina is one of the...