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Nature podcast on ethical considerations of neural prosthetics

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

Brain, Machine and In-Between from Nature Opinion forum on Nature Network

Nature sent me a press release about this today and it seemed like it might be of interest to ND readers. There is also a related commentary in the journal this week.

Posted in Discussion, Neural prosthetics, Neuroethics | No Comments »

Deisseroth on new step ChR2

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

Posted in Genetics and molecular, Ion channels, Methods and techniques | No Comments »

A return to integrative medicine

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

Posted in Genetics and molecular, Medicine | No Comments »

$10 billion for NIH, $3 billion for NSF in stimulus

Saturday, February 21st, 2009

Posted in Grants | No Comments »

Evidence of similar linguistic capabilities in Neaderthals

Friday, February 13th, 2009

Posted in Animal cognition, Evolution, Genetics and molecular, Neuroethics | 2 Comments »

Letting scientists off the leash

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

Posted in Discussion, Grants | No Comments »

Conference on Neuroprosthetic Devices

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

Tags: Conference, Deep Brain Stimulation, Neuroprosthetic Devices, Spinal Cord Stimulation, Taiwan
Posted in Conferences, Discussion, Neural prosthetics, Neuroengineering | No Comments »

NIH stimulus funding: Some (mostly) good news

Saturday, February 7th, 2009

Posted in Discussion, Grants | No Comments »

Interdisciplinary academic jobs or not?

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

Posted in Discussion, Jobs | 3 Comments »

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