One of the main challenges in treating psychiatric disorders is the ability to predict which treatment will work best. The Neuropsychiatry Unit at the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown is using a procedure called TMS […]
Jürgen Knoblich: “Cerebral organoids are great for studying processes that only happen in human brains”
For the last few years, scientists have been able to grow 3D nervous structures in the lab – called “cerebral organoids” – which mimic the brain of a few-week-old human embryo. In 2016, they allowed […]
Neuroscientists decipher a critical switch that controls brain state
(Disponível em Português) A central hub of neurons act as pulse generators. An international team of brain researchers achieved a breakthrough in uncovering a switch-like mechanism that flips the brain between two motivational states in larval […]
Zebrafish “avatars” can help decide who should receive radiotherapy treatment
(Disponível em Português) To date, there is no method for clearly determining whether radiotherapy will be an effective treatment for individual cancer patients. This is a significant problem as patients may be unnecessarily subjected to potentially […]
ProjectAr take 01: out of our seats and into the streets
Richard Vevers, a toilet paper salesman, decides that he’s had enough. He packs his bags and travels across the world to Australia, where he reinvents himself as an underwater photographer. All is well in the […]
Peeping into the black box of AI to discover how collective behaviours emerge
(Disponível em Português) For decades, scientists seeking to explain the emergence of complex group behaviors, such as schooling in fish, have been divided into two camps. Now, a way out of this dichotomy has been found […]
LAB COMICS
INSPIRED BY: The Cell Fitness Lab Recent news stories & videos about the Cell Fitness lab: Outcompeting Cancer; Squeezing Out The Competition (the micro-version) ; Losing neurons can sometimes not be that bad More Lab Comics… […]
Tumor resistance is promoted by anti-cancer protein
(Disponível em Português) Areas of solid tumors that have limited access to oxygen, a condition called hypoxia, are highly resilient against chemo and radiation therapy. For years, scientists have wondered why the tumor suppressor protein p53 […]
How sleepless nights compromise the health of your gut
(Disponível em Português) Why are individuals that have irregular schedules, such as night-shift workers, more susceptible to gut inflammation and obesity? A newly found link between gut immune function and the brain’s circadian clock may very […]
Novel math could bring machine learning to the next level
(Disponível em Português) In recent years, a theory called “Topological Data Analysis”, stemmed from a branch of Mathematics so abstract that it did not seem to have any application whatsoever in the real world, has […]