Search results for mirror neurons

Optics & Photonics Jan 19, 2015

New high-speed 3-D microscope gives deeper view of living things

Opening new doors for biomedical and neuroscience research, Elizabeth Hillman, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia Engineering and of radiology at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC), has developed ...

General Physics Dec 3, 2014

Taming neural excitations

What do lasers, neural networks, and spreading epidemics have in common? They share a most basic feature whereby an initial pulse can propagate through a medium - be it physical, biological or socio-economic, respectively. ...

Biotechnology Apr 10, 2014

Planaria deploy an ancient gene expression program in the course of organ regeneration

As multicellular creatures go, planaria worms are hardly glamorous. To say they appear rudimentary is more like it. These tiny aquatic flatworms that troll ponds and standing water resemble brown tubes equipped with just ...

Biochemistry Feb 14, 2014

New insight into protein misfolding in neurodegenerative disorders

Research by the University of Southampton has provided new insight into the consequence of accumulated 'misfolded proteins' in neurodegenerative disorders, such as Prion and Alzheimer's disease.

General Physics Oct 25, 2013

New microscopes reveal live, developing cells in unprecedented 3-D clarity

Researchers at NIH have developed two new microscopes, both the first of their kind. The first captures small, fast moving organisms at an unprecedented rate and the second displays large cell samples in three dimensions ...

Cell & Microbiology Jun 27, 2013

Scientists model human disease in stem cells

Many scientists use animals to model human diseases. Mice can be obese or display symptoms of Parkinson's disease. Rats get Alzheimer's and diabetes.

Plants & Animals Apr 5, 2013

Researchers find non-ape species engages in rapid facial mimicry

(Phys.org) —A team of researchers made up of members from three academic centers in Italy has found the first instance of rapid facial mimicry (RFM) outside of humans and apes. In their paper published in Scientific Reports, ...

Cell & Microbiology Jan 25, 2013

Study shows potential of differentiated iPS cells in cell therapy without immune rejection

A new study from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) shows that tissues derived from induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells in an experimental model were not rejected when transplanted back into genetically identical ...

Cell & Microbiology Jan 17, 2013

The neurobiological consequence of predating or grazing

Researchers in the group of Ralf Sommer at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tuebingen, Germany, have for the first time been able to identify neuronal correlates of behaviour by comparing maps of synaptic ...

Computer Sciences Jun 26, 2012

Google team: Self-teaching computers recognize cats

(Phys.org) -- At the International Conference on Machine Learning, which starts today in Edinburgh, participants will hear about Google’s results after several years’ work at their big idea laboratory, Google X. ...

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