{"id":124379,"date":"2021-06-28T15:23:01","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T22:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/a-never-before-seen-type-of-signal-has-been-detected-in-the-human-brain"},"modified":"2021-06-28T15:23:01","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T22:23:01","slug":"a-never-before-seen-type-of-signal-has-been-detected-in-the-human-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/a-never-before-seen-type-of-signal-has-been-detected-in-the-human-brain","title":{"rendered":"A Never-Before-Seen Type of Signal Has Been Detected in The Human Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-never-before-seen-type-of-signal-has-been-detected-in-the-human-brain2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists develop the first CRISPR-Cas9-based gene drive in plants which may breed crops better able to withstand drought and disease.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Scientists have discovered a unique form of cell messaging occurring in the human brain that\u2019s not been seen before. Excitingly, the discovery hints that our brains might be even more powerful units of computation than we realized.<\/p>\n<p>Early last year, researchers from institutes in Germany and Greece reported a mechanism in the brain\u2019s outer cortical cells that produces a novel \u2018graded\u2019 signal all on its own, one that could provide individual neurons with another way to carry out their logical functions.<\/p>\n<p>By measuring the electrical activity in sections of tissue removed during surgery on epileptic patients and analysing their structure using fluorescent microscopy, the neurologists found individual cells in the cortex used not just the usual sodium ions to \u2018fire\u2019, but calcium as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists develop the first CRISPR-Cas9-based gene drive in plants which may breed crops better able to withstand drought and disease. Scientists have discovered a unique form of cell messaging occurring in the human brain that\u2019s not been seen before. Excitingly, the discovery hints that our brains might be even more powerful units of computation than [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}