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Have you ever wondered how your ears can pick up the faintest whisper yet also handle loud music without damage? Scientists at Rockefeller University have achieved a remarkable feat: they kept a tiny piece of cochlea alive and working outside the body, allowing them to witness the hearing process in unprecedented detail.
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If you’re like me and spent hours of your day sitting at a desk typing on a keyboard, I am sure you have imagined how cool it’d be to just have your thoughts translated into typed words just like that. Well, new research on brain implants recently published in the journal Nature has shown that…
I’ve always found funny the whole ritual of wine tasting: smell, move, try, savor, taste…all to extract the maximum from the sensations experienced by our tastebuds and be able to recognise all the nuances the label describes. Of course, so much so the more expensive the bottle. It is not that I doubt of the…
How can we experience a sensation that is not real? How to mimic a sensory stimulus in its absence? How to smell a smell when there is none there? By activating certain neurons, it seems.
Brain cells communicate through neurotransmitters like glutamate or dopamine, the substances we got used to read about when learning about brain function. However, it seems this is not the only way neurons can communicate. A new study suggests that certain proteins can act as brain messengers in the brain. Previously, only pathological proteins like tau…
Sugar has been in the spotlight for a while, it being the most likely culprit of the obesity epidemic of our time. As to how is that possible, many consider that it is because it leads to an addiction, with sugar acting as the sweet sweet drug driving our wants and needs. A new study…
One of the biggest challenges of medical imaging technologies is actually resolving the structures of interest, be it a tumour, a lung or a blood vessel, without the “noise” from other bodily parts like skin or muscle. A new imaging technique allows for visualisation inside intact animals at higher resolution than ever before. A team…