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Scientists create supercharged vitamin K that helps the brain heal itself
Scientists in Japan have created powerful new vitamin K-based compounds that may help the brain regenerate lost neurons — a breakthrough that could one day change how diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s are treated. By combining vitamin K with components related to vitamin A, the researchers developed compounds that were about three times more effective at turning neural stem cells into neurons than natural vitamin K alone.
Scientists Create the First Artificial Neuron That Can Communicate
A major breakthrough in artificial intelligence may have arrived: scientists have created an artificial neuron capable of communicating with other neurons.
Inspired by the human brain, this technology could allow machines to process information in a far more biological and efficient way. Instead of traditional computing architectures, future systems could operate more like living neural networks.
In this video we explore how artificial neurons work, why this breakthrough matters, and how it could reshape AI, robotics, and neuroscience.
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AI-Powered BCIs Are Changing Human Cognition
Further Reading.
N3: Next-Generation Nonsurgical Neurotechnology.
https://www.darpa.mil/research/progra…
Advancements in neural closed-loop manipulations in awake, behaving animals.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science…
INSIGHT: Universal Neural Simulator for Analog Circuits Harnessing Autoregressive Transformers.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.
MouseGoggles: an immersive virtual reality headset for mouse neuroscience and behavior.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4159…
Michael Levin: Consciousness, Biology, Universal Mind, Emergence, Cancer Research
Michael Levin is an American developmental and synthetic biologist at Tufts University, where he is the Vannevar Bush Distinguished Professor. Levin is a director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University and Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology. He is also co-director of the Institute for Computationally Designed Organisms with Josh Bongard.
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00:00 — Intro.
00:30 — Biggest Myths of Biology.
07:18 — Tying Michael’s Work Together.
35:25 — Who Are We (Humans)?
56:10 — Cognition.
01:14:10 — Conscious Agents.
01:33:25 — Bioelectricity and Cancer.
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Michael’s paper on cognition — https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti…
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Michael Levin’s blog post on advice — https://thoughtforms.life/what-advice…
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GD2 CAR T Cells Show Promise Against DMG
In a small clinical trial, a CAR T-cell therapy—a type of immunotherapy that uses a patient’s own immune cells to fight cancer—shrank tumors in several children and young adults with diffuse midline gliomas. This fast-growing form of brain and spinal cord cancer typically causes death within a year of diagnosis.
In the trial, several participants were still alive 2 years or more after receiving the treatment.
Patients in the trial had a type of diffuse midline gliomas known as H3K27M mutant, a genetic change that is found in about 80% of younger patients with these cancers Exit Disclaimer. Researchers at Stanford University, who led the study, designed the experimental CAR T-cell therapy to target a molecule called GD2 that is produced in large amounts by H3K27M-mutant diffuse midline gliomas.
Team finds brain circuit that helps you switch gears
A new study shows how the brain abandons outdated strategies and adapts to new rules.
Most people have experienced the feeling: switching from one task to another, only to find the brain momentarily stuck in the old mode of thinking. Sometimes, even after realizing a strategy no longer works, the mind keeps returning to it anyway.
Neuroscientists call the ability to adapt and shift strategies “cognitive flexibility”—a core feature of higher cognition that allows the brain to abandon outdated rules and respond to changing conditions. Impairments in cognitive flexibility are associated with disorders including Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), schizophrenia, and Alzheimer’s disease.
Scientists Built A Disturbingly Accurate AI Brain Simulation
Insights from the Algonauts 2025 Winners.
https://arxiv.org/html/2508.10784v1
A foundation model of vision, audition, and language for in-silico neuroscience.
https://ai.meta.com/research/publicat…
How to breathe life back into brain theory.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d4158…
A foundation model to predict and capture human cognition.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158…
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