by Joy Mazur, International League Against Epilepsy Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainJessica Veach didn’t wait long enough at the stop sign. “You got too excited,” the instructor told her, writing a large “X” over her driving test. Veach, who was retaking the test after having epilepsy surgery, failed because of her rolling stop. She cried afterward....
by Andrew Smith, Rutgers University Graphical abstract. Credit: Journal of Clinical Investigation (2023). DOI: 10.1172/JCI171468A team of Rutgers undergraduates has shown that an experimental drug known as Yoda1 may help drain cranial waste plus neurotoxins that cause Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. “The brain’s lymphatic system is one of the hottest research areas in...
by Stanford University Medical Center Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainA new study by Stanford Medicine investigators unveils a new artificial intelligence model that was more than 90% successful at determining whether scans of brain activity came from a woman or a man. The findings, published Feb. 19 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, help...
You know mRNA, now meet siRNAPeer-Reviewed Publication UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO Society learned about the value of mRNA during the COVID-19 pandemic when we saw scientists and medical professionals harness its power to deliver a vaccine for the virus within a year. Now, University of Waterloo pharmacy associate professor Emmanuel Ho has developed a novel nanomedicine...
The idea of injecting microscopic robots into the bloodstream to heal the human body is not new. It’s also not science fiction. Guided by an external magnetic field, miniature biocompatible robots, made of magnetizable iron oxide nanoparticles, can theoretically provide medical treatment in a very targeted manner. Until now, there has been a technical obstacle:...
Implants and other technologies that decode neural activity can restore people’s abilities to move and speak — and help researchers to understand how the brain works. By Miryam Naddaf Scientists have studied how brain–computer interfaces, such as this non-invasive cap, change brain activity. Credit: Silvia Marchesotti Moving a prosthetic arm. Controlling a speaking avatar. Typing...
by Queensland Brain Institute Cells expressing a mutant protein, TDP-43, involved in MND pathology. Credit: Dr Rebecca San Gil at the Queensland Brain InstituteFor the first time, researchers from the University of Queensland (UQ) have mapped out the proteins implicated in the early stages of motor neuron disease (MND). Dr. Rebecca San Gil from Associate...
by Melissa Rohman, Northwestern University Spike threshold heterogeneity affects the function generation properties of spiking neural networks. (A) Reservoir computing architecture used for function generation. A pulse is fed into a recurrent neural network and a linear readout is trained to minimize the mean squared error between a target time-dependent function and a network output obtained...
by Skyler Swisher, Caroline Catherman, Orlando Sentinel Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainFollwoing a a suspected bat bite Caroline Ford, worried she may have been exposed to rabies, sought treatment from AdventHealth Altamonte Springs. She called her insurance company, Anthem Blue Cross, and expected she’d need to pay about $600 based on her conversation over the phone....
by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Graphical abstract. Credit: Molecular Cell (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2024.01.007Our immune system is remarkably powerful. It quickly assembles teams of cells to eliminate threats inside our bodies. But sometimes, it hits the wrong target. Autoimmune diseases like lupus and multiple sclerosis result from friendly fire—immune cells attacking healthy tissues and organs by mistake....
