Israeli boffins bring life to human neuron culture
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Plan to install bottled brains in 'cyborg machines' Israeli boffins may be on the road to building artificial, living human brains which can function without a body to support them. Honest.â¦
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Two Israelis and an American won the Nobel Prize in  Chemistry yesterday for discovering the method by which cells tag proteins that are defective or have outlived their usefulness and direct them to the cellular machinery that grinds them up into reusable parts.
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Scientists flock to songbird research, hoping finches and canaries will provide insight into the mysteries of human speech, memory and neuron production. Randy Dotinga reports from the Society for Neuroscience convention in San Diego.
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An elite group of researchers wants to create a map of how your brain is wired. To do it, they've built a custom robot that peels 3-D brains like an apple, and pushes the resulting brain "tape" through an electron microscope.
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US researchers show that a computer can be controlled by the brain without the need for implants.
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A breakthrough in the way scientists make crystals could lead to a replacement for silicon in chips for devices.
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Researchers coax cells in a petri dish into learning to guide a plane. The project should lead to a better understanding of how the brain works. By Lakshmi Sandhana.
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A protein which helps increase lifespan in worms offers hope for new Parkinson's and Alzheimer's treatments.
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A synthetic molecule based on one found in frog egg cells could potentially be used to treat brain tumours.
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Scientists have uncovered clues about how the brain imitates the actions of others.
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A new federally funded project should help scientists learn how some animals regenerate body parts so well. They hope to apply the lessons to humans. By the Associated Press.
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U.S. scientists have, for the first time, applied a computer model of how the brain processes visual information to a complex, real world task.  People have been talking about computers imitating the brain for a long time, said Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Tomaso Poggio.
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Using a technique borrowed from in vitro fertilization, researchers have for the first time shown that it is possible to create new embryonic stem cell colonies without destroying human embryos. Corrected article
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Forget the clicker: A new technology in Japan could let you control electronic devices without lifting a finger simply by reading brain activity.
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New methods to reprogram adult cells could create novel models of disease.
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Active people have cells that look younger on a molecular level than those of couch potatoes.
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There could be enough computing ability in just one brain cell to allow humans and animals to feel, a study suggests.