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Brain preservation prize

Saturday, June 6th, 2009

Cryonics never really delivered. But can we now develop the technology to preserve neural structures? Ken Hayworth thinks we can and advocates a brain preservation technology prize. It’s nice to see such big ideas.

Posted in At the scale of cells and synapses, Imaging, Neuroengineering | No Comments »

Sunday afternoon reading: Genetic tools “primer”

Sunday, May 10th, 2009

Posted in Genetics and molecular, Ion channels, Methods and techniques, Neuroengineering, Neuronal arbors/neurites | No Comments »

Neuroengineering in Wired

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

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

Deisseroth on new step ChR2

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

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

sCRACM: ChR2 circuit mapping

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

Posted in Axons, Cortex, Dendrites, Genetics and molecular, Ion channels, Methods and techniques | 4 Comments »

PNAS roundup: Superresolution in 3D and fetal testosterone of traders

Saturday, January 24th, 2009

Posted in Imaging, Neuroeconomics | No Comments »

Social neuroscience fMRI: Specious correlations?

Saturday, January 17th, 2009

Posted in Cognitive science, Data analysis, Discussion, Imaging, Neuroethology | No Comments »

Bistable current photoswitches in neurons

Monday, January 12th, 2009

Posted in Culture (in vitro), Genetics and molecular, Ion channels, Neuroengineering | No Comments »

Adaptive binning in the retina

Monday, October 6th, 2008

Posted in Biophysics, Computation within single neurons, Imaging, Ion channels, Vision | 1 Comment »

Neuroengineering mosquito repellents

Monday, August 18th, 2008

Posted in Biophysics, Genetics and molecular, Ion channels, Medicine | No Comments »

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