To study membrane properties under electrical stimulation, Katsaras and Collier used water droplets suspended in oil, known as a droplet interface bilayer. These early experiments showed unexpected ...

When the RNA-binding protein TDP-43 absconds from the nucleus, splicing chaos ensues and neuronal function gets disrupted in ways scientists are still cataloguing. Now on this list: synaptic ...

"Game of Thrones" actor Michael Patrick has died at the age of 35. Patrick's wife, Naomi Sheehan, shared the news on Instagram, revealing that her husband passed away in Northern Ireland on April 7 ...

Patients in neurocritical care are often vulnerable to secondary brain injury, wherein spreading depolarization (SD) is identified as a pivotal electrophysiological catalyst. This study consolidates ...

A computer platform that runs on human neurons (and recently showed off said neurons’ ability to play DOOM) now wants in on the data center boom. Australia-based Cortical Labs announced today that it ...

A clump of human brain cells can play the classic computer game Doom. While its performance is not up to par with humans, experts say it brings biological computers a step closer to useful real-world ...

Abstract: The output voltages for the capacitive elements of a neural circuit model can be mapped into dimensionless capacitive variables, which present firing patterns similar to the membrane ...

Unlike our organs, cell organelles such as mitochondria are not fixed in place, but when, where, how, and why organelles move remain unclear. Research published in the Biophysical Journal shows that ...

Lab-grown “reductionist replicas” of the human brain are helping scientists understand fetal development and cognitive disorders, including autism. But ethical questions loom. Brain organoids, which ...