MetaFilter posts tagged with Neurons

I give them 50 years for me.

StrikeTheViol — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:56:07 -0800

Functional Neurons Induced From Adult Stem Cells. Meanwhile, stem cells may be better than bone marrow for certain cancers, and have the potential to revolutionize the supply of blood. Anecdotal success stories continue to pile up.

New Neurons Get Timestamped

homunculus — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 13:01:42 -0800

Newborn brain cells "time-stamp" memories. [Via]

Dalek prototype

homunculus — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:50:28 -0800

Rise of the rat-brained robots. [Via]

Dopamine

homunculus — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:30:25 -0800

A New State of Mind. "New research is linking dopamine to complex social phenomena and changing neuroscience in the process."

Somewhere, over the brainbow...

kisch mokusch — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 03:09:26 -0800

Brainbow. Using some very cool genetic tricks, Harvard scientists have found a way to make transgenic mice that express various mixtures of different coloured fluorescent proteins in their neurons. The result, individual brain cells with up to 90 distinct colours. Not surprisingly, this visually impressive work is in this month's issue of Nature.

singularity gets just slightly closer

jeffburdges — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 03:52:06 -0800

Italian & German researchers have created a "neuro-chip" for linking computers with mammalian neurons (A NewScientist, LiveScience, MSN). They added neuron gluing proteins to the chip to attract the sodium pores, and genetically modified the neurons to add more sodium pores.

In the short term, the work is expected to aid the pharmaceutical industry in testing the effects of drugs on neurons, assist basic research into the workings of the brain, and perhaps help treat neurological disorders. In the long term, numerous sci-fi technologies are slightly closers, such as computers with living components, useful brain implants, and Beowulf clusters of humans.

stems cells-->neurons

yoga — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 04:29:59 -0800

Stem cells-->neurons. Scientific American link. Also discussed most recently here.

brain for sale

yoga — Fri, 10 Oct 2003 05:30:58 -0800

Pssst. Wanna buy a neuron?

Alwin — Tue, 28 Aug 2001 21:22:15 -0800

Brain Cells Used To Make Working Semiconductor "This is the first direct functional interfacing of a living neuronal network with an electronic semiconductor chip," said co-author Dr. Peter Fromherz of the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Munich, Germany, in an interview with Reuters Health. "It is a further step on our road to combine the elements of brains and computers," he added.