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23 And Me to sell customer's data to a Biotech company for drug development
Posted in Science on 7th Jan, 2015
by Alex Muller
Genentech intends to use this data to develop drugs for Parkinson's Disease.
New Non invasive MRI can detect early stage Alzheimers in a living animal
Posted in Hardware on 5th Jan, 2015
by Alex Muller
Alzheimers disease affects one out of nine people over the age of 65.
Test measures analytical thinking linked to depression, fueling the idea that depression may be a form of adaptation
Posted in Medicine on 4th Jan, 2015
by Alex Muller
Depression may actually be an adaptation meant to help people cope with complex problems.
Optogenetics captures synaptic transmission in live mammalian brain for the first time
Posted in Science on 27th Dec, 2014
by Alex Muller
This could significantly expand our knowledge of connectivity between various types of neurons as a more realistic alternative to in vitro studies.
Color-coding brain cells
Posted in Science on 25th Dec, 2014
by Alex Muller
Neuroscientists have developed a method called multicolor RGB tracking to improve our understanding of how the brain works by color-marking brain cells to be tracked over time.