A biocomputer harnesses biologically derived materials, such as DNA, proteins, or living tissue (e.g., lab-grown neurons), to perform computational tasks.

Understanding the shape or morphology of neurons and mapping the tree-like branches via which they receive signals from other ...

This bioengineering breakthrough has found a way to make neurons grown in a dish react just like the real thing. "Neurons that fire together, wire together" describes the neural plasticity seen in ...

Forget rehab, medication, and counseling. What if light could one day help cure us of our addictions? Reporting in the journal Frontiers in Neuroscience, researchers at the University of Buffalo and ...

In 2017, Demis Hassabis and his colleagues at Google’s Deepmind highlighted the commonalities between artificial intelligence (AI) and neuroscience in a paper and noted that better understanding of ...

Northwestern University-led researchers have created the first highly mature neurons from human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). Although previous researchers have differentiated stem cells to ...

Northwestern University-led researchers have created the first highly mature neurons from human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), a feat that opens new opportunities for medical research and ...

Ion channels are crucial for neural communication; they control the flow and gradient of charged particles, creating electrical signals. Recent work reported in Nature showed that there are not as ...

When MIT neurobiologists tracked how more than 200 motor neurons in fruit flies each edited their RNA, they cataloged hundreds of target sites and widely varying editing rates. Scores of edits altered ...

As AI platforms go mainstream, power bills from their usage are exploding, so researchers are racing to build hardware that would use less energy.

Deep inside your nervous system, a tiny fault in how cells make energy can quietly change the course of a life. That hidden ...

The mature neurons also present new opportunities for studying neurodegenerative diseases like ALS and other age-related illnesses in culture dish-based in vitromodels. By advancing the age of neurons ...