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Machine Translates Thoughts into Speech in Real Time

(PhysOrg.com) -- By implanting an electrode into the brain of a person with locked-in syndrome, scientists have demonstrated how to wirelessly transmit neural signals to a speech synthesizer. The "thought-to-speech" ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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How the worm knows where its nose is

For decades, scientists have studied Caenorhabditis elegans – tiny, transparent worms – to glean clues about how neurons develop and function. A new Harvard study suggests that the worms' nervous system is much m ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Genetic packing: Successful stem cell differentiation requires DNA compaction, study finds

(Phys.org) -- New research findings show that embryonic stem cells unable to fully compact the DNA inside them cannot complete their primary task: differentiation into specific cell types that give rise to ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Molecular spectroscopy tracks living mammalian cells in real time as they differentiate

Knowing how a living cell works means knowing how the chemistry inside the cell changes as the functions of the cell change. Protein phosphorylation, for example, controls everything from cell proliferation ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New science suggests we might soon be able to mix computers and neurons

(PhysOrg.com) -- Graduate students at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, led by Minrui Yu and Yu Huang, have published an ACS Nano paper, "Semiconductor Nanomembrane Tubes: Three-Dimensional Confinement for Co ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 22, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (31) | comments 19 | with audio podcast report

Research shows regenerative benefit of MultiStem after spinal cord injury

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and Athersys, Inc. announced a joint scientific study on spinal cord injury will be published today in the January issue of the Journal of Neuroscience. The study, by lea ...

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created Jan 19, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Finding genes that control mind and behavior

The highly sophisticated abilities of humans, such as memory, learning, cognition and thought, are achieved in the brain as a result of dramatic evolutionary development. Personality, preference, behavioral ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Nov 01, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New target identified for Alzheimer’s disease

Neurological researchers at Rush University Medical Center have found a new therapeutic target that can potentially lead to a new way to prevent the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. The target called neutral sphingomyelinase ...

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created Sep 29, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists identify a new target for Alzheimer's disease

Neurological researchers at Rush University Medical Center have found a new therapeutic target that can potentially lead to a new way to prevent the progression of Alzheimer's disease. The target called neutral sphingomyelinase ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 21, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Compounds fend off Alzheimer's disease amyloid pathology

A team of scientists, led by University of California, San Diego School of Medicine researchers, has synthesized hundreds of new compounds with the potential of reducing the production of the A-beta 42 peptide, a primary ...

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created Sep 08, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Autism-related study discovers how drug interferes with neuronal cell function

A York University study has shown for the first time how the drug misoprostol, which has been linked to neurodevelopmental defects associated with autism, interferes with neuronal cell function.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jul 07, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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