brains
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Blue Light From LEDs Can Rot The Brains Of Fruit Flies, Study Finds
The blue light that emanates from every smartphone and fluorescent bulb isn’t thought to be great for our health, particularly the health of our eyes. But a new study in fruit flies suggests that blue light can even be harmful to brains and speed up ageing — again, in fruit flies. There’s a very long…
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A Promising Brain-Regenerating Drug May Only Work For Women And Babies, A Mouse Study Suggests
A new study in mice is the latest to show why it’s important for scientists to include both male and female test subjects in their research. The study suggests that a common diabetes drug — which is now being explored as a way to repair the brain — may only help boost cognition in young…
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Scientists See Human-Like Brain Waves In Lab-Grown Mini-Brains
One way that scientists can non-invasively study the human brain is by growing “mini-brains,” clusters of brain cells each about the size of a pea, in the lab. In a fascinating progression of this line of research, a team this week reports that they observed human-like brainwaves from these organoids.
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Elon Musk’s Neuralink Says It’s Created Brain-Reading ‘Threads,’ Surgical Robot That Inserts Them
On Tuesday evening in San Francisco, SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk finally shed some light on what Neuralink, his company that has raised $US158 ($225) million to develop “ultra high bandwidth brain-machine interfaces to connect humans and computers,” has been up to since its launch in 2017.