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Sea sponges have the makings of a nervous system
Sea sponges are sedentary organisms that attach themselves to the sea bed and filter nutrients from the water that they force through their porous bodies with flagella. They are the most primitive of … more →
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Sea sponges have the makings of a nervous system
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Mo wrote 2 years ago: Sea sponges are sedentary organisms that attach themselves to the sea bed and filter nutrients from … more →
Invisibility cloak materials made from reflective self-assembling squid proteins
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Mo wrote 2 years ago: A new study into the biophysical properties of a highly reflective and self-organizing squid protein … more →
Storage of information in cultured neurons
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Mo wrote 2 years ago: Cultured neurons seem like ants away from their colony: removed from their parent organ, dissociated … more →
Müller cells: Nature's fibre optics
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Mo wrote 2 years ago: “Schematic representation of mammalian retina structure. Artistic grouping of cells and direct … more →
Transcribe DNA sequences into music
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Mo wrote 2 years ago: In his book Gödel, Escher, Bach, Douglas Hofstadter makes an explicit analogy between genes and musi … more →
Reversal of memory impairments associated with Alzheimer's
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Mo wrote 2 years ago: Researchers from the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT, with collaborators from the H … more →
April 25, 1953: Watson & Crick publish DNA structure
Mo wrote 2 years ago: This unassuming one-page paper, published in Nature exactly 54 years ago, revolutionized the biologi … more →
Gene Genie Number 5
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Mo wrote 2 years ago: Welcome to the fifth edition of Gene Genie, the carnival devoted to genes, clinical genetics and gen … more →
Using light to control neuronal activity
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Mo wrote 2 years ago: A group of researchers led by Ed Boyden, an assistant professor at the MIT Media Lab and leader of t … more →
Researchers use rabies to draw brain circuit diagrams
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Mo wrote 2 years ago: The brain is an organ of staggering complexity, consisting of hundreds of billions of cells (and ten … more →
It's neurotransmission, but not as we know it
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Mo wrote 2 years ago: The standard view of how a neuron functions is described in hundreds of textbooks: dendrites receive … more →
Researchers untangle Alzheimer's
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Mo wrote 2 years ago: All neurodegenerative diseases are characterized by the build-up of proteins within or around nerve … more →
Neurogenesis in the adult human brain
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Mo wrote 2 years ago: One of the central dogmas of neuroscience was that the brains of adult mammals cannot generate new n … more →
Giant squid dazzles prey with fireworks
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Mo wrote 2 years ago: In 2005, Japanese researchers obtained, for the first time, footage of a giant squid in the wild. No … more →
Researchers show that prion disease symptoms & pathology are reversible
Mo wrote 2 years ago: Experiments by researchers from the Institute of Neurology in London and the University of Birmingha … more →
Study shows how prion diseases sow their seeds
Mo wrote 2 years ago: Prion diseases are a group of related neurodegenerative diseases, including bovine spongiform enceph … more →
Single-cell nanosurgery
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Mo wrote 2 years ago: Nanosurgery, as applied in biology, involves the use of laser beams focused by an objective microsco … more →
DNA nanoparticles deliver genes into the retina
Mo wrote 2 years ago: Biologists from the University of Oklahoma Health Science Center, in collaboration with researchers … more →
