How odours influence actions is one of the fundamental questions in neuroscience. Richard Benton, associate professor at the Center for Integrative Genomics at the University of Lausanne, follows the molecular trail of chemical ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 24, 2015
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Scientists from the University of Southampton have developed a device which records the brain activity of worms to help test the effects of drugs.
Cell & Microbiology
May 22, 2013
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Channelrhodopsins (ChRs) are remarkable proteins that respond to specific wavelengths of light by allowing ions to cross the cell membrane, a mechanism that makes them useful for manipulating ion-driven processes in the brain. ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 8, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Wyoming have characterized and engineered new proteins that expand the use of light as a tool to manipulate cell cultures, tissues and laboratory model animals.
Biochemistry
Jan 25, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have uncovered a self-organizing biological principle in the brains of three very different, genetically diverse mammals -- but in all three they found the same mathematically precise "pinwheel" ...
Evolution
Nov 4, 2010
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Researchers from MIT and Argonne National Laboratory have developed a machine learning technique that could greatly accelerate the process of nanoscale X-ray imaging of integrated circuits, potentially revolutionizing the ...
Optics & Photonics
Jun 1, 2023
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A new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances discusses all-fiber transmission photometry for simultaneous optogenetic stimulation and multi-color neuronal activity recording.
Optics & Photonics
Jun 22, 2022
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If a banana is rotting in the fruit basket of your kitchen, chances are that a fruit fly will find it long before you do. How is the nervous system of a tiny fly capable of ascending the odour trail created by a banana? This ...
Biotechnology
Jun 3, 2015
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Panasonic Corporation today announced that it has developed a low energy consumption circuit for neural network systems, by forming the world's first ferroelectric memristor, which can record continuous analog data as resistance, ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
Jun 10, 2013
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