What makes humans intelligent? These unique neurons might hold the key
Concepts encoded by concept neurons can be an animal, an article of clothing, a place, or a person. The concept can be evoked ...
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Muscle or neuron? A simple swap can redirect cell fate
Alter just one section of the protein responsible for making a muscle cell a muscle cell — and it makes nerve cells instead March 19, 2015 • By Dr. Sabrina Richards / Fred Hutch News Service Muscle ...
Deciphering the sequence of neuronal firing: New study challenges prevailing theory in neuroscience
If you are shown four images in quick succession and have to remember the order of these images in order to recognize them ...
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Engineers turn skin cells directly into neurons for cell therapy
Converting one type of cell to another—for example, a skin cell to a neuron—can be done through a process that requires the skin cell to be induced into a "pluripotent" stem cell, then ...
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New Model Mimics TDP-43 Aggregation in ALS and Frontotemporal Dementia
Researchers have developed a laboratory model that mimics the pathological aggregation of TDP-43, a key protein in ALS and ...
Nature1mon
Diversity in neuronal activity could be caused by differences in inputs
Different neuronal cells have a diverse range of activity patterns, but the cause has remained unclear. In mice, maps of brain-wide inputs to individual neurons that do or do not show activity ...