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·February 5, 2021·5 min read

Signs of Burnout Can Be Detected in Sweat

A new wearable sensor can measure cortisol levels in a person's sweat.

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·January 22, 2021·4 min read

MRI Helps Unravel the Mysteries of Sleep

MRI technology helps researchers identify specific brain activity during different stages of sleep.

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·January 18, 2021·2 min read

Snap-Freezing Reveals a Truer Structure of Brain Connections

Using a snap-freezing method, researchers have been able to reveal the true structure of the connections that join neurons together in the adult brain.

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·August 29, 2020·2 min read

“Jumping” DNA Regulates Human Neurons

Transposable elements team up with evolutionary recent neurons to influence differentiation and physiological function of neurons in brain development.

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·August 13, 2020·4 min read

The Neuroscience of Getting and Staying Motivated

The key to performance and motivation lies within the ratio of glutamine and glutamate in the nucleus accumbens. The ratio of glutamine to glutamate relates specifically to stamina.

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·July 13, 2020·5 min read

Brain ‘Signature’ Could Help to Diagnose Schizophrenia

An EEG study reveals people with schizophrenia and their siblings without the disorder share patterns of brain activity that are different from people with no familial history of schizophrenia. As one sibling didn't suffer from schizophrenia, researchers say the different brain signature could serve as a biomarker for the mental health disorder.

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·May 17, 2020·3 min read

Designing vaccines from artificial proteins

Using computational methods, researchers created artificial proteins that triggered immune responses and produced infection specific antibodies. The findings indicate it will be possible to design vaccines that contain artificial antibodies, expediting the process of vaccine development.

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·April 30, 2020·4 min read

COVID-19: Using wastewater to track the pandemic

Examining wastewater is helping researchers track coronavirus infection trends. The waste reflects the viral load excreted by a population within a few hours and can help establish COVID-19 community hot spots. While researchers will not be able to calculate the exact number of community cases of coronavirus by examining wastewater, they can trace the increase of SARS-CoV-2 concentration and track the level of infection rate.

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·February 6, 2020·7 min read

Breathing may change your mind about free will

Voluntary actions are linked to the body's inner state, specifically breathing and expiration, but not heartbeat.

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·October 9, 2019·3 min read

Deep3DFly: the deep-learning way to design fly-like robots

A new robotic fly, dubbed Deep3DFly, uses active learning to improve its performance.

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·August 30, 2019·4 min read

Blue Brain finds how neurons in the mouse neocortex form billions of synaptic connections

Scientists generated statistical instances of the micro-connectome, containing over 10 million neurons. The model spans five orders of magnitude and contains 88 billion synaptic connections.