Lab-grown neural networks have the ability to replace lost axonal tracks in the brains of…
Month: January 2016
Biomarker predicts which stage II colon cancer patients may benefit from chemotherapy
A biomarker has been identified that predicts which stage II colon cancer patients may benefit…
Mechanism for direct synthesis of hydrogen peroxide revealed
The mechanism for the direct synthesis of H2O2 on palladium cluster catalysts has been revealed,…
Childhood trauma associated with worse impulse control in adulthood, study finds
The scars of childhood abuse and neglect affect adults’ brains for decades to come —…
Neutral result charges up antimatter research
Scientists are once again pushing the boundaries of antimatter research with their latest breakthrough studying…
Memory capacity of brain is 10 times more than previously thought
The brain’s memory capacity is in the petabyte range, as much as entire Web, new…
Emotion-processing networks disrupted in sufferers of depression
Regions of the brain that normally work together to process emotion become decoupled in people…
Chickenpox, shingles vaccine may cause corneal inflammation in some patients
In use for more than 20 years, the varicella zoster virus vaccine for chickenpox and…
Like air traffic, information flows through neuron ‘hubs’ in the brain
70 percent of all information within cortical regions in the brain passes through only 20…
Bluetooth and Wi-Fi sensing from mobile devices may help improve bus service
Transportation engineers have developed an inexpensive system to sense Wi-Fi and Bluetooth signals from bus…