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Implanted neurons, grown in the lab, take charge of brain circuitry
Writing today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of Wisconsin scientists reports that neurons, forged in the lab from blank slate human embryonic stem cells and implanted...
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Decision making in bee swarms mimic neurons in human brains
In previous work, Cornell University biologist Thomas Seeley clarified how scout bees in a honeybee swarm perform “waggle dances” to prompt other scout bees to inspect a promising site that has been...
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A World In Our Heads: Video Captures The Flow Of Proteins Inside An...
This is absolutely incredible. Molecular biologists at USC have captured video footage of a neuron so finely detailed, you can actually observe the transport of individual proteins throughout the...
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Hello Future: Nano Scale Neural Implants Developed
thin, flexible electrode developed at the University of Michigan that is 10 times smaller than other neural implants could make long-term measurements of neural activity achievable and practical. A...
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IBM simulates 530 billon neurons, 100 trillion synapses on supercomputer
IBM Research – Almaden presented at Supercomputing 2012 last week the next milestone toward fulfilling the ultimate vision of the DARPA’s cognitive computing program, called Systems of Neuromorphic...
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Hello Future: Smartphone-controlled ‘cockroach cyborg’ to appear at TED...
If the thought of a cockroach scuttling around on the floor is enough to make the hair on the back of your neck stand on end, then you’d better steer clear of this week’s TEDGlobal conference taking...
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Project Inception: Scientists Make Mice “Remember” Things That Didn’t Happen
Scientists have created a false memory in mice by manipulating neurons that bear the memory of a place. The work further demonstrates just how unreliable memory can be. It also lays new ground for...
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