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Magnetothermal Genetics: A Fourth Tool in the Brain-Hacking Toolbox
30/08/2017
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A scientist wanting to hack into an animal’s brain used to have three different tools to choose from: electric current, drugs, and light. Now there’s a fourth: magnetic fields. In a paper published last week in the open-access journal eLife, scientis...
Can Brain Cells Grow on a Chip
24/05/2017
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Every human thought starts with a signal traveling from one neuron to another in the brain. Yet we know relatively little about how these connections form. In an effort to watch that process unfold, Australian researchers engineered a nanowire scaff...
“Sugar, I can’t work without you.”, says Brain
29/01/2017
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New research is providing insights into why the brain is so reliant on sugar to function. In a study published Jan. 19 in Neuron, a research team led by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators discovered that brain cells use a specific sugar, glucose, ...
Brain Cancer Patients Persist Longer by Sending Electric Fields Through Their Heads
15/12/2016
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The Optune system for treating brain cancer requires a fair bit of wearable hardware. The amazing Optune device, discovered by a company called Novocure, can’t exactly be called convenient or modest.Novocure just reforms Optune, decreasing the size ...
Brain-Zapping Gadgets Need Regulation, Say Scientists and (Some) Manufacturers
06/10/2016
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Brain-Zapping Gadgets, It's a unique technology. Few year's ago, the concept of electrically re-freshening people's brain in the comfort of their own home would have sounded weird, and probably like an inferior idea. It is an easy-to-pull-off techni...
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Gene Editing Tool CRISPR Is Making Scientists Face The Hard Questions
10/03/2016
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The CRISPR-Cas9 tool makes genetic engineering cheap and easy, making it a powerful tool that has the potential to be abused. Video provided by NewsyT...