Harvard’s Tiny Chip Unveils 70,000 Hidden Brain Connections
Harvard researchers have developed an advanced silicon chip with microhole electrodes, allowing for the mapping of over ...
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Harvard team built a CMOS chip to map 70,000 synaptic connections between 2,000 rat neurons
A Harvard team built a CMOS chip that can see the signals across 2,000 rat neurons, allowing the team to map over 70,000 connections — a first in the field of neural research.
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Silicon chip maps 70,000 synaptic connections in neuronal network
Harvard researchers have mapped and cataloged more than 70,000 synaptic connections from about 2,000 rat neurons, using a ...
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Meet the newly discovered brain cell that allows you to remember objects
“It opens the door to the idea that there may be other undiscovered neuron types within the brain, each with specialized ...
Brain-inspired neural networks reveal insights into biological basis of relational learning
Humans and certain animals appear to have an innate capacity to learn relationships between different objects or events in ...
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Researchers discover the brain cells that tell you to stop eating
the oldest part of the vertebrate brain. Their discovery could lead to new treatments for obesity. "These neurons are unlike any other neuron involved in regulating satiation," says Alexander ...
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Scientists Are Finding More Microplastics in the Brain
Feb. 4, 2025 – Microplastics have been found in the brain, showing they can cross the blood-brain barrier, and the amounts of the tiny plastic bits inside our bodies appear to be increasing at a ...
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The Human Brain May Contain as Much as a Spoon’s Worth of Microplastics, New Research Suggests
The amount of microplastics in the human brain appears to be increasing over time: Concentrations rose by roughly 50 percent between 2016 and 2024, according to a new study Sarah Kuta Daily ...
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What's it like to use Elon Musk's brain chip? How does it work?
Elon Musk wants to merge humans with AI. And his goal of achieving "symbiosis" with artificial intelligence starts with a brain chip. Neuralink, a company Musk co-founded, is testing linking ...
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Human brain samples contain an entire spoon’s worth of nanoplastics, study says
Cognitively normal human brain samples collected at autopsy in early 2024 contained more tiny shards of plastic than samples collected eight years prior, according to a new study. Overall ...
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Study finds pregnant fish get ‘baby brain’ too
Brain staining of pregnant fish. On the left is the Nissl staining used to determine neuron morphology and on the right is ki67 staining which stains for cell proliferation. (Tiffany Ernst via SWNS) ...
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Pete Davidson Spent $200K on 'Years-Long' Tattoo Removal, Is Doing 'Really Well' Since Getting Sober in September (Exclusive)
The actor, whose new movie 'Dog Man' is out now, previously told PEOPLE he planned to remove his tattoos by the age of 30 NBC Pete Davidson paid a pretty penny to tone down his tattoos.