At Stanford, Ofer Yizhar helped turn light into a switch for brain cells, amid late-night messages and risky experiments; ...
Human brain cells play "DOOM"In March 2025, at an international technology conference held in Barcelona, Spain, a device was ...
As scientists develop computers powered by living human neurons, a troubling ethical question emerges: could these ...
Three preprints expand the list of high-confidence autism-linked genes and reveal how variants in these genes contribute to ...
A study from the Pennington Biomedical Center reveals that warm temperatures could influence appetite and weight gain.
The Karolinska Institute awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine to researchers Karl Deisseroth of Stanford University, Peter Hegemann of Humboldt University in Berlin, and Georg Nagel of the ...
Stanford University shared footage of Deisseroth telling his two daughters and one of his sons that he had won a Nobel Prize for medicine. The 54-year-old shared this year’s prize with two ...
Neurons and synapses.When reading about the brain and nerves, both are terms that appear frequently, aren't they?“Neurons ...
Your brain makes it possible to recognize voices, recall holidays, or learn new skills.
Researchers are beginning to build computers that use living human neurons as part of the processing system. The cells are grown across silicon chips, connected to electrodes and trained to respond to ...
Medical image segmentation, the task of tracing the exact outlines of lesions, polyps, and blood vessels in clinical scans, has long been dominated by a trade-off. Convolutional networks excel at ...
Taylor Swift released the music video for “Patient Zero” during the 2026 VMAs, starring the Grammy winner, Dakota Johnson and Collin Farrell, along with a cameo from Cara Delevingne.