A team of scientists has developed a new technique to better understand the effects of nicotine on the brain. In a study published in Nature Methods, the investigators described the creation of a novel light-activated nicotine ...
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A team of researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine has developed specialized bioinformatics software designed to identify rare genetic variants in whole-genome sequencing studies. Zilin Li, Ph.D., assistant professor ...
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Biomedical engineers at Duke University have developed a method to deliver drugs to specific types of neurons throughout the brain. This new approach, which was tested in mice, was 100 times more precise than existing methods ...
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For years, researchers have been trying to quickly and accurately identify the parts of DNA that lead to genetic disorders like cancer. A new software tool from researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder could improve ...
Apr 13, 2022
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Artificial intelligence is finding more and more applications every day. One of the newest is in the biomedical field, using AI to control and drive single-molecule microscopy in ways no human can. The result is a landmark ...
Dec 8, 2023
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Engineers at MIT have developed soft and implantable fibers that can deliver light to major nerves through the body. When these nerves are genetically manipulated to respond to light, the fibers can send pulses of light to ...
Oct 19, 2023
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The human brain contains approximately 86 billion neurons and 600 trillion synapses that exchange signals between the neurons to help us control the various functions of the brain, including cognition, emotion, and memory. ...
Jan 18, 2024
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At Baylor College of Medicine, scientists have developed a method that allows them to accurately determine the genes expressed in single cells. Among other applications, this technique can be useful to study how cancerous ...
Jan 18, 2017
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Brown University researchers have created a new type of optoelectronic implantable device to access brain microcircuits, synergizing a technique that enables scientists to control the activity of brains cells using pulses ...
Oct 12, 2015
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An error in one of the most widely used methods in epigenetics, DIP-seq, can cause misleading results, researchers at Linköping University, Sweden, have shown. This may have major significance in the research field, where ...
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