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Genetic Foundations of Regeneration Remain Elusive
Throughout the animal kingdom, several species have the ability to regenerate body parts after cuts or damage. Lizards can regrow their tails, salamanders can regrow arms and legs, certain flatworms can even regrow their entire heads. But humans do not have the ability to regenerate damaged body parts. Why? To answer this question, researchers first […]
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Top International BCI Academic Conference to Be Held in Asia for the First Time
July 24, 2024 (Redwood City, USA) – The Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute (TCCl) and the BCI Society announced today the BCI Society & Chen Institute Joint BCI Meeting, which will be held in Shanghai, China on December 6 – 7 this year, marking the first time that the world’s top academic conference in the […]
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Two New Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators Named
Caltech professors Viviana Gradinaru (BS ’05) and André Hoelz have been named among 26 new investigators of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). They join a community of more than 250 HHMI investigators across fields ranging from neuroscience to immunology to structural biology. Gradinaru is the Lois and Victor Troendle Professor of Neuroscience and Biological […]
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‘Magic Mushrooms’ Work By Scrambling Key Brain Network
In a new study researchers report that psilocybin, the active compound in magic mushrooms, temporarily scrambles a critical network of brain areas involved in introspective thinking such as daydreaming and remembering. People who consume psilocybin-containing mushrooms—otherwise known as magic mushrooms—typically undergo a surreal experience in which their sense of space, time and self is distorted. […]
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Neural Network Learns to Build Maps using Minecraft
Imagine you are in the middle of an unknown town. Even if your surroundings are initially unfamiliar, you can explore around and eventually create a mental map of your environment—where the buildings, streets, signs, and so on are in relation to one another. This ability to construct spatial maps in the brain is the basis […]
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Intestinal Blastocystis is linked to healthier diets and more favorable cardiometabolic outcomes in 56,989 individuals from 32 countries
Diet affects our health by influencing body fat and the risk of developing heart and metabolic diseases. The gut microbiome, which includes various microorganisms living in our intestines, plays a crucial role in this diet-health connection. While much research has focused on gut bacteria, the role of other microorganisms, like Blastocystis, hasn’t been studied as […]
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Andersen Receives Prize for Outstanding Achievements in Neurological Research
Richard Andersen, the James G. Boswell Professor of Neuroscience and director and Leadership Chair of the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Brain-Machine Interface Center at Caltech, has been awarded the 2024 International Prize for Translational Neuroscience of the Gertrud Reemtsma Foundation. The Gertrud Reemtsma Foundation supports and recognizes outstanding achievements in basic neurological research. Andersen shares […]
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Beetles Conquered Earth by Evolving Their Own Biochemical Laboratory
As organisms diversified on planet Earth, some branches of the tree of life became exceptionally diverse, others far less so. Still others went extinct. Why evolution favored certain groups over others is a long-standing question in evolutionary science. Beetles are the poster child of evolutionary success: about 400,000 species are known—about a quarter of all […]
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TCCI Announces A Milestone of DLab Program: First Chinese EEG Dataset Published in Scientific Data, A Nature Portfolio Journal
At the forefront of neuroscience, EEG technology is gradually uncovering the mysteries of how the brain processes language. While EEG datasets using non-Chinese corpuses as stimuli are relatively comprehensive, there is a notable absence of EEG datasets stimulated by Chinese corpuses. This gap constrains research on the language representation mechanism of the human brain in […]
