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Aug 23, 2024
What does the future of brain-computer interfaces look like?
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: biotech/medical, computing, neuroscience
Amid ongoing human clinical trials, there is still a long way to go before neural chips are commonplace in clinics.
Aug 23, 2024
Stanford Reverses Cognitive Decline in Alzheimer’s With Brain Metabolism Drug
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience
Neuroscientists at Stanford have linked Alzheimer’s disease to the disruption of brain metabolism via the kynurenine pathway, which is affected by amyloid plaque and tau proteins.
Their research has demonstrated that drugs blocking this pathway can restore cognitive function in Alzheimer’s mice by improving brain metabolism. This discovery not only bridges the gap between neuroscience and oncology but also provides a fast track to repurposing existing drugs for Alzheimer’s treatment.
Alzheimer’s disease and brain energy metabolism.
Aug 23, 2024
Top 10 Publicly Owned Gene Editing Therapy Companies
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical
With investments, approvals, and revenues on the rise, gene editing therapy is increasingly able to address delivery and accessibility challenges.
Aug 23, 2024
Delivering Prime Editors With Virus-like Particles
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, genetics
An iterative engineering approach to improve prime editor delivery helped scientists correct genetic vision defects in mice.
Aug 23, 2024
Towards a Complexity Theory for Fully Quantum Problems — Henry Yuen
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: media & arts, quantum physics
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Aug 23, 2024
Brain Overgrowth Linked to Autism Symptom Severity
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience
Summary: Researchers have identified a link between brain overgrowth and the severity of social and communication symptoms in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
By analyzing MRI scans and conducting experiments with brain organoids, the study found that children with the most severe ASD symptoms had significantly larger brains. This enlargement is associated with altered activity of the enzyme Ndel1, which plays a crucial role in neuron development.
The findings open new avenues for understanding ASD and its varying symptom severity.
Aug 23, 2024
Quantum Microprocessor Chip Advance Could Boost Simulation of Large, Complex Molecular Structures
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: computing, quantum physics
Engineers have developed the world’s first quantum microprocessor chip for simulating large and complex molecular structures.
Aug 23, 2024
Take These Steps Before Tech Becomes Mentally Superior to Us
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: robotics/AI
What happens when we’re faced with something no one has ever seen before – a disruptive force that has no clear historical precedent? Something like artificial general intelligence (AGI).
Aug 23, 2024
Empowering a qudit-based quantum processor by traversing the dual bosonic ladder
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: quantum physics
The full-fledged development of qudits in superconducting circuits is hindered by limited interaction toolkit and stringent requirements on frequencies and anharmonicities. Here, the authors propose and demonstrate an alternative scheme to perform multi-qudit gates in transmon-based devices, which is based on Raman-assisted two-photon interactions.