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An Inexhaustible Source of Neural Cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research scientists in Bonn, Germany, have succeeded in deriving so-called brain stem cells from human embryonic stem cells. These can not only be conserved almost indefinitely in culture, but can also serve ...

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A bird's song may teach us about human speech disorders

(PhysOrg.com) -- Can the song of a small bird provide valuable insights into human stuttering and speech-related disorders and conditions, including autism and stroke? New research by UCLA life scientists ...

Biology / Biotechnology

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Surprising diversity at a synapse hints at complex diversity of neural circuitry

A new study reveals a dazzling degree of biological diversity in an unexpected place – a single neural connection in the body wall of flies.

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Memristors with a twist: Quasi-liquid soft matter foreshadows biocompatible electronics and flexible robots

In some circles, memristors (from "memory resistor," as coined by Leon Chua in a 1971 paper outlining memristive theory) are all the rage – and for good reason: As circuit elements which "remember" the ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

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Brain scientists offer medical educators tips on the neurobiology of learning

Everyone would like MDs to have the best education – and to absorb what they are taught. The lead article in the April 4 issue of the journal Academic Medicine* connects research on how the brain learns to how to inc ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Neuropsychologist proves that some blind people 'see' with their ears

Dr. Olivier Collignon of the University of Montreal's Saint-Justine Hospital Research Centre compared the brain activity of people who can see and people who were born blind, and discovered that the part of the brain that ...

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created Mar 16, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Dendritic branch is preferred integrative unit for protein synthesis-dependent LTP

Neuroscientists at MIT's Picower Institute of Learning and Memory have uncovered why relatively minor details of an episode are sometimes inexplicably linked to long-term memories. The work, slated to appear in the Jan. 13, ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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Neuroscientists explain 'Proustian effect' of small details attached to big memories

Neuroscientists at MIT's Picower Institute of Learning and Memory have uncovered why relatively minor details of an episode are sometimes inexplicably linked to long-term memories. The work is slated to appear in the Jan. ...

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Diabetes may clamp down on cholesterol the brain needs

The brain contains more cholesterol than any other organ in the body, has to produce its own cholesterol and won't function normally if it doesn't churn out enough. Defects in cholesterol metabolism have been linked with ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Nov 30, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Crystal clear: Eureka! moment leads to major breakthroughs in structural biology

(PhysOrg.com) -- Tuning out the noise of fellow passengers and the incessant hum of the turbojet engine, Lin Chen pored voraciously over the pages of James Watson's The Double Helix. The words and ideas flowed ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jul 19, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Key mechanism in the brain's computation of sound location identified

New York University researchers have identified a mechanism the brain uses to help process sound localization. Their findings, which appear in the latest edition of the journal PLoS Biology, focus on how the brain comput ...

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