Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD, has devoted the better part of two decades of his career to the development and promulgation of optogenetics, which has immeasurably improved scientists’ ability to probe the ...

Synaptic plasticity, the ability of synapses to change their strength in response to activity, is fundamental to learning and memory, and is accompanied by changes in the presynaptic terminal and the ...

Greg Daugherty has worked 25+ years as an editor and writer for major publications and websites. He is also the author of two books. Katie Miller is a consumer financial services expert. She worked ...

All cells, whether big or small, short or long, rely on proteins to function properly. In most cells, transporting these proteins is relatively simple. Neurons in the brain, however, face a ...

Engineers at Northwestern University have taken a striking leap toward merging machines with the human brain by printing artificial neurons that can actually communicate with real ones. These flexible ...

Chloride-permeable GABA type A receptors (GABA A Rs) and glycine receptors (GlyRs) are ligand-gated ion channels that mediate most fast synaptic inhibition in the central nervous system (CNS). The ...

First look: Australian biotech startup Cortical Labs has crossed another boundary in biological computing. Its latest hardware platform, the CL1, uses living human neurons as the core of a fully ...

Researchers from The University of Texas at Dallas' Center for Advanced Pain Studies (CAPS) and their colleagues have made a fundamental discovery about a key mechanism that enables nervous system ...

USC researchers built artificial neurons that replicate real brain processes using ion-based diffusive memristors. These devices emulate how neurons use chemicals to transmit and process signals, ...

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A team of engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has announced the creation of an artificial neuron with electrical functions that closely mirror those of biological ones. Building on ...