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Dec 14, 2023

Machine learning–driven self-discovery of the robot body morphology

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Robots learn their topology and kinematics from proprioception using a graph representation based on mutual information.

Dec 14, 2023

Why mega brain project teams need to be talking to each other

Posted by in category: neuroscience

As large-scale neuroscience projects start to yield results, sharing data standards will become increasingly important.

Dec 14, 2023

OpenAI Demos a Control Method for Superintelligent AI

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

But because superintelligent AI doesn’t exist yet, they tried it out on GPT-4.

Dec 14, 2023

BICCN: The first complete cell census and atlas of a mammalian brain

Posted by in category: neuroscience

Generating a complete multimodal cell census and atlas of the mouse brain through collaborative data collection, tool development and analysis.

Dec 14, 2023

Human motor augmentation with an extra robotic arm without functional interference

Posted by in categories: cyborgs, robotics/AI

A nonintrusive human-machine interface for controlling extra arms was tested using a neurorobotic platform.

Dec 14, 2023

Rare electronic states appear in five-layer graphene

Posted by in category: materials

Ferroicity and multiferroicity

Ferroic materials are those that exhibit a spontaneous ordering of their electric, magnetic or structural properties. The best-known example of ferroicity is ferromagnetism, in which the magnetic moments of a material all point in one direction, but other types of ferroic ordering are possible. In ferroelectricity, for example, it is the electric polarization that spontaneously orders itself, while ferroelastic materials display spontaneous strain.

Multiferroicity occurs when several properties of a material have their own individual preferred states. For example, a magnetic multiferroic material might have magnetic moments that point in one direction, and electric charge that also shifts in a certain direction. Importantly, the two phenomena are independent of each other.

Dec 14, 2023

Government-Funded Study Explores Warp Drives as Means of Faster-Than-Light Communication through “Hyperwaves”

Posted by in category: government

This government funded faster-than-light communication research using warp bubbles may be a key to develop FTL travel technology.

Dec 14, 2023

Cas9-induced targeted integration of large DNA payloads in primary human T cells via homology-mediated end-joining DNA repair

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

The targeted integration of large DNA payloads into primary human T cells can be efficiently achieved non-virally by leveraging Cas9-based editing and the DNA-repair pathway homology-mediated end joining.

Dec 14, 2023

Brain Cell Transplant Is an Experimental Procedure

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

Brain transplant is not a reality for humans or for any living organism. But there are human research experiments in which transplanted brain cells are used to help treat several diseases that affect the brain. So far, there are very few results and measured outcomes of brain cell transplant, but the concept of transplanting brain tissue has shown some promise in preliminary studies.

If you are interested in having a brain cell transplant procedure, you can talk to your healthcare provider and look for a university or research center where brain cell transplant procedures are being done. These procedures tend to be part of research studies, so you will likely need to enroll in a research study if you want to have this type of treatment.

The brain is composed of many different regions and cells. Neurons in the brain have dedicated functions, and they do not typically heal when they are damaged. Parkinson’s disease, stroke, multiple sclerosis (MS), epilepsy, Alzheimer’s disease, and head trauma are among the conditions for which brain cell transplant has been used for humans in an experimental setting.

Dec 14, 2023

Why gene editing technology may change the future of medicine

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical

Newly approved CRISPR treatment can change a person’s “blueprint.”