Category: Tech News
- New Brain-Computer Interface Rivals State-of-the-Art Devices ()
Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) offer the glimmer of hope of enabling the paralyzed and disabled to control external devices with brain signals. A new study published in Advanced Functional Materials unveils the world’s first-of-its-kind brain-computer interface with a flexible backing and penetrating microneedles that enable better recording of brain-activity signals. “Neural interface technologies that enable recording […]
- A jump-start for electroceuticals ()
Kristoffer Famm and colleagues unveil a multidisciplinary initiative to develop medicines that use electrical impulses to modulate the body’s neural circuits. Imagine a day when electrical impulses are a mainstay of medical treatment. Your clinician will administer ‘electroceuticals’ that target individual nerve fibres or specific brain circuits to treat an array of conditions. These treatments […]
- Simulating matter on the quantum scale with AI ()
Solving some of the major challenges of the 21st Century, such as producing clean electricity or developing high temperature superconductors, will require us to design new materials with specific properties. To do this on a computer requires the simulation of electrons, the subatomic particles that govern how atoms bond to form molecules and are also […]
- Competitive programming with AlphaCode ()
Solving novel problems and setting a new milestone in competitive programming. Creating solutions to unforeseen problems is second nature in human intelligence – a result of critical thinking informed by experience. The machine learning community has made tremendous progress in generating and understanding textual data, but advances in problem solving remain limited to relatively simple […]
- Machine Learning Becomes a Mathematical Collaborator ()
Two recent collaborations between mathematicians and DeepMind demonstrate the potential of machine learning to help researchers generate new mathematical conjectures. Mathematicians often work together when they’re searching for insight into a hard problem. It’s a kind of freewheeling collaborative process that seems to require a uniquely human touch. But in two new results, the role […]
- https://technology.nasa.gov/patents/category/health_medicine_and_biotechnology ()
https://technology.nasa.gov/patents/category/health_medicine_and_biotechnology
- First Atomic-Level Imaging of Lethal Prions Provide Sharpened Focus for Potential Treatments ()
Summary: Cryogenic-electron microscopy allowed researchers to determine the basic building blocks of prion proteins, including the placements of their amino acids. Source: Case Western Reserve The highest-ever resolution imaging of an infectious prion provides the first atomic-level data of how these abnormal proteins are assembled to cause fatal neurodegenerative diseases in people and animals—and how […]
- Scientists Paint Multicolor Atlas of the Brain ()
Summary: A newly developed technique dubbed NeuroPAL is helping researchers investigate the dynamics of neural networks in the nervous system of microscopic worms. Source: Columbia University The human brain contains approximately 86 billion neurons, or nerve cells, woven together by an estimated 100 trillion connections, or synapses. Each cell has a role that helps us […]
- The future of design, and it could be applied to medicine too ()
see this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNqs_S-zEBY
- Music-Induced Emotions Can Be Predicted From Brain Scans ()
Music-Induced Emotions Can Be Predicted From Brain Scans Summary: Based on the activity in the auditory cortex and motor cortex, researchers were able to predict whether a participant was listening to music that was upbeat or sad. Source: University of Turku Researchers at the University of Turku have discovered what type of neural mechanisms are […]
- AI-Designed Serotonin Sensor May Help Scientists Study Sleep and Mental Health ()
Summary: Artificial intelligence technology redesigned a bacterial protein that helps researchers track serotonin in the brain in real-time. Source: NIH Serotonin is a neurochemical that plays a critical role in the way the brain controls our thoughts and feelings. For example, many antidepressants are designed to alter serotonin signals sent between neurons. In an article […]
- Layton, the Canada 150 Research Chair in Mathematical Biology and Medicine, built the first computational model that simulates the muscle contractions that move urine from the kidney to the bladder. ()
Layton, the Canada 150 Research Chair in Mathematical Biology and Medicine, built the first computational model that simulates the muscle contractions that move urine from the kidney to the bladder. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191007081721.htm
- Even After Long-Term Exposure, Bionic Touch Does Not Remap the Brain ()
Summary: After a year of using a bionic arm, patients report subjective sensations did not shift to match the location of the touch sensor on their prosthetic device. Source: University of Chicago Advances in neuroscience and engineering have generated great hope for Luke Skywalker-like prosthetics: robotic devices that are almost indistinguishable from a human limb. […]
- Scientists develop AI that can turn brain activity into text ()
Researchers in US tracked the neural data from people while they were speaking Reading minds has just come a step closer to reality: scientists have developed artificial intelligence that can turn brain activity into text. While the system currently works on neural patterns detected while someone is speaking aloud, experts say it could eventually aid […]
- DeepMind AI solves 50-year protein folding problem in “stunning advance” ()
Predicting the structures of unfolded proteins is a long-pursued goal in biology, and the Deepmind AI tool can now do so with high accuracy. While some of the applications for artificial intelligence involve say, winning games of Texas hold’em or recreating pretty paintings, there are areas where the technology could have truly profound consequences. Among […]
- New cell line lets researchers use CRISPR to reversibly switch off genes ()
‘CRISPR interference’ technique enables study of basic cell biology and disease in human stem cells The gene-editing technique known as CRISPR has become the darling of the laboratory world, most recently garnering its discoverers a Nobel Prize. The method is also taking early steps into the clinic as the basis for experimental gene therapies, for […]
- Be normal/natural ()
I don’t encourage this: https://gizmodo.com/mit-backs-away-from-startup-that-aims-to-preserve-your-1824312470 I agree with them to revive patients, but with a normal body very natural, ecologic-based.
- Statins and ICH: New Meta-Analysis ()
A new meta-analysis has concluded that the benefit of statin therapy in the prevention of ischemic stroke “greatly exceeds” the risk for intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH). The meta-analysis was released on AAN.com as part of the 2020 American Academy of Neurology Science Highlights. The meeting, like many others, was cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Coauthor […]
- Promising therapy for cardiac regeneration ()
Ischemic heart disease (IHD) has maintained its rank as one of the worldwide leading causes of mortality outweighing the burden from all malignancies combined. When IHD develops, chronic myocardial ischemia, aggravated in some instances by periods of acute ischemia in the form of myocardial infarction, ensue. Damaged myocardium is replaced with a fibrotic scar that […]
- U of A researchers find way to speed up nerve regrowth ()
By ADRIANNA MacPHERSON A University of Alberta researcher has found a treatment that increases the speed of nerve regeneration by three to five times, which may one day lead to much better outcomes for trauma surgery patients. “We use the term ‘time is muscle,’” said Christine Webber, an associate professor in the U of A’s […]
- Human Brain Project launches ‘Google Earth’ of the brain ()
Scientists have developed an atlas of the brain which has the potential to improve research, treatment and surgery for conditions including epilepsy and cancer. As part of the new EBRAINS digital infrastructure of the European Human Brain Project, a team of scientists has developed a microstructure atlas of the brain. The atlas is said to […]
- Laser-welded sugar: Sweet way to 3D-print blood vessels ()
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/06/200629120203.htm Powdered sugar is the special ingredient in a Rice University recipe for mimicking the body’s intricate, branching blood vessels in lab-grown tissues. In research published today in the journal Nature Biomedical Engineering, Rice bioengineers showed they could keep densely packed cells alive for two weeks in relatively large constructs by creating complex blood vessel […]
- Largest supercomputers to simulate life on Earth, including economies and whole societies ()
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100526134039.htm
- Jobs in Neuroscience ()
https://www.researchgate.net/jobs/Neuroscience-jobs?page=1®ions= https://www.google.com/search?q=neuroscience+jobs
- List of brains institutes to understand the brains around the world ()
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Neuroscience_research_centers_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cognitive_science_research_institutes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Neuroscience_research_centers_by_country https://braininitiative.nih.gov/funding/funded-awards
- http://www.humanconnectomeproject.org/ ()
http://www.humanconnectomeproject.org/ https://www.humanconnectome.org/ Connectome is one of the biggest project for brain understanding. I think. I’m not sure but a lot of cryonicists are excited about it. I don’t know if the 2 links are related.
- https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/en/brain-simulation/ ()
https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/en/brain-simulation/ This is a good project for cryonics patients, not enough mature though.
- Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS) Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) ()
https://www.fz-juelich.de/ias/jsc/EN/Home/home_node.html
- Bioprinting whole bodies ()
There is a good industry currently about bioprinting organs, that might lead to bioprinting whole bodies. technology to build tissues and organs. Bioprinting precisely places cells, proteins, DNA, drug particles, growth factors and biologically active particles spatially to guide tissue generation and formation. It has been used extensively in the field of regenerative medicine. United […]
- Blood substitute ()
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_substitute We need the perfect blood, with a good immune system for us, up to date with the current humanity. In the cryonics process we remove blood, we will need to replace the cryoprotectant with a new blood. This tech will evolve too. Better for everyone. The blood substitute might include smart nanomachines.
- Scientists create first billion-atom biomolecular simulation ()
We just begin to simulate stuff, when computers will be cheaper, more powerful, smaller, simulation will help for disease treatments. We can’t simulate a whole body so. And we don’t have good scanners too. Not in 2020. Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory have created the largest simulation to date of an entire gene of […]
- U Scientists Scan World’s First 10.5-Tesla Human MRI Image ()
This kind of scanner will become cheaper, smarter, more accurate and maybe portable. This kind of scanner could help cryonics patients if we need to touch the cryonics patient. But I doubt it would allow to scan outside the dewars in metal, but maybe they will find a way. Some patients currently have peace maker […]
- The transmission electron microscope, This Microscope Shows the Quantum World in Crazy Detail ()
THE TRANSMISSION ELECTRON microscope was designed to break records. Using its beam of electrons, scientists have glimpsed many types of viruses for the first time. They’ve used it to study parts of biological cells like ribosomes and mitochondria. You can see individual atoms with it. But experts have recently unlocked new potential for the machine. “It’s been a […]
- Google researchers create AI that maps the brain’s neurons ()
Mapping could be used as scanning. This is good news for us that Google is interested to map our neurons, maybe one day this technology might be mature, cheap and could be applied to cryonics patient. Some features are open source but I don’t know if the technique is invasive or not. Cryonicists prefer not […]
- Researchers are developing a device that can edit brain activity ()
Not enough information from that for cryonics patients, we don’t know enough about our brains and this tool is not mature yet. But it is a beginning. But it has a lot of potential for cryonics patients. This is one of the aim of cryonics to edit brains. Neuroscientists at the University of California Berkeley […]
- New Breakthrough Allows Machines to Literally Predict the Behavior of Molecules ()
This tool could be used for cryonics patients, but right now this kind of tools are not supported for cryonics patients but we could be inspired by such a news. Though much noise has been made of what’s still to come from artificial intelligence (AI), the technology has already changed our daily lives. Machine […]