You are in a strange neighbourhood, your cell phone’s dead, and you desperately need to find the closest garage. A
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A ‘homing system’ targets therapeutic T-cells to brain cancer
A multi-institution international team led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine has developed a new strategy to overcome one
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Multiple sclerosis drug slows brain shrinkage, study finds: Trial offers hope for disease with limited treatment options
Results from a clinical trial of more than 250 participants with progressive multiple sclerosis (MS) revealed that ibudilast was better
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A video game can change the brain, may improve empathy in middle schoolers
A space-exploring robot crashes on a distant planet. In order to gather the pieces of its damaged spaceship, it needs
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Integrated sensor could monitor brain aneurysm treatment
Implantation of a stent-like flow diverter can offer one option for less invasive treatment of brain aneurysms — bulges in
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Artificial intelligence can predict your personality … simply by tracking your eyes
It’s often been said that the eyes are the window to the soul, revealing what we think and how we
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Optical neural network demo
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made a silicon chip that distributes optical signals precisely
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Consciousness is partly preserved during general anesthesia
When people are administered an anaesthetic, they seem to lose consciousness — or at least they stop reacting to their
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Planned movements and spontaneous reactions are processed differently in the brain: A study on Rhesus monkeys highlights the role of the brain regions involved in the planning of movements
The runners are lined up at the starting line, patiently awaiting the start signal for the 1000-meter race. In the
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Human immune ‘trigger’ map paves way for better treatments
A discovery about how human cells are ‘triggered’ to undergo an inflammatory type of cell death could have implications for
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