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A small area deep in the brain called the perirhinal cortex is critical for forming unconscious conceptual memories, researchers at the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain have found. The perirhinal cortex was thought to be involved, like the neighboring hippocampus, in “declarative” or conscious memories, but the new results show that the picture is more complex, said lead ... Continue Reading
DNA sequencing tool (Imperial College London) Scientists from Imperial College London are developing technology that could ultimately sequence a person’s genome in mere minutes, at a fraction of the cost of current commercial techniques. The researchers have patented an early prototype technology that they believe could lead to an ultrafast commercial DNA sequencing tool ... Continue Reading
Google Body Browser Google has just launched its latest browser experiment, Google Body Browser[1]. Body Browser shows an interactive detailed 3D model of the human anatomy that includes multiple layers, such as the circulatory and nervous systems and the skeleton and muscles. It works like Google Maps, with special tools for viewing different types of body systems (nervous ... Continue Reading
UCSF researchers have found that extremely low doses of the drug lenalidomide restores key elements of the immune system that, when out of balance, lead to a steady decline in immunity and health as people age. Lenalidomide can stimulate the body’s immune-cell protein factories, which decrease production during aging, and can rebalance the levels of several key cytokines — ... Continue Reading
Fly brain neuron (Current Biology) Taiwanese researchers have managed to bar code some 16,000 of the 100,000 neurons in a fruit fly’s brain and to reconstruct the brain’s wiring map. Biologists see this atlas of the fly brain as a first step toward understanding the human brain. The team describes the general architecture of the fly’s brain as composed of 41 local processing ... Continue Reading
