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During the perception of external stimuli, sense organs work as transducers; various physical stimuli are converted into electronic signals though receptor organs and/or receptor cells, which are ...
The human body is a key subject of research by scientists worldwide. A biomedical engineering research team led by Professor ...
The long structures seen in manta rays and their relatives function as an early warning system, rather than a defensive weapon.
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The vagus nerve does it all—tells your lungs to breathe, controls your heart rate, and even forms the foundation for a whole ...
A study led by Nikita Komarov and Simon Sprecher at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, has discovered neurons in the ...
The human body is a key subject of research by scientists worldwide. A biomedical engineering research team led by Professor Kevin Tsia, programme director of the Biomedical Engineering Programme ...
The study found that the fly peripheral taste organ has neurons with texture ... Excitingly the same neurons that sense chemicals in the taste system can in some cases sense texture." ...
An interview with Karl Friston, a computational psychiatrist and an architect of an AI developed to emulate natural ...
The finding strongly suggests the tail is a sensory organ. The researchers suggest ... novel lateral line system in the tail of myliobatid stingrays, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological ...