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Surgeons Are Simulating Whole Brains To Pin Down The Source Of Their Patients' Seizures
Posted in Medicine, Science, Software on 12th Apr, 2023
by Alex Muller
A decade ago, the Human Brain Project launched with a blue-sky goal: digitizing a human brain. The implications were huge: simulated brains could provide crucial clues to help crack some of the most troubling neurological diseases.
Finding a Song People Were Listening To Based On Their Brain Activity
Posted in Science on 11th Apr, 2023
by Alex Muller
A neural decoding model that is able to reconstruct heard music from brain activity can form a reasonable step towards other forms of neural decoding models that have applications for aiding communication.
Better together: improving brain tumour treatment
Posted in Medicine on 11th Apr, 2023
by Alex Muller
“It’s a very, very specific environment,” stresses Chalmers. There’s the blood-brain barrier, for a start, and then there’s the difficulty of killing cancer cells without damaging the healthy ones around them – the ones we think, act, share and learn with; that make any of this possible.
Children’s cancer charities team up for tomorrow’s treatments
Posted in Medicine on 11th Apr, 2023
by Alex Muller
In order to give young people, teenagers and children with cancer the best chance of survival without side effects, we have to approach their diseases differently.
Institute of Cancer Research embraces olaparib recommendation
Posted in Medicine on 11th Apr, 2023
by Alex Muller
"Olaparib is an important example of how understanding the underlying genetics of patients, and their tumours’ genomics, can be used to design highly targeted precision medicines.”