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High-Speed 'Brain Modem' Could Restore Vision, Speech, and Movement

Posted in Hardware on 29th Aug, 2017
by Alex Muller

Paradromics, a California-based startup, is designing a high-speed brain-computer interface with broad implications in prosthetics.

Computer Approaches Human Skill for First Time in Mapping Brain

Posted in Science on 20th Aug, 2017
by Alex Muller

Washington State University researchers have developed a computer algorithm that can accurately map brain networks from electronic microscopy images.

Those at greater risk of having schizophrenia are more likely to try cannabis

Posted in Medicine on 18th Aug, 2017
by Alex Muller

Researchers at the University of Bristol have found a causal link between those with the mental condition and users of the drug.

Industrial-scale high-resolution brain mapping for neuroscience

Posted in Science on 17th Aug, 2017
by Alex Muller

Neuroscientists who painstakingly map the twists and turns of neural circuitry through the brain are about to see their field expand to an industrial scale.

3D printing living tissues to form living structures

Posted in Medicine on 16th Aug, 2017
by Alex Muller

Scientists have developed a new method to 3D-print laboratory- grown cells to form living structures.