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Sep 3, 2024

Study reveals how neighboring synapses coordinate their response to plasticity signals

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, computing, neuroscience

Neurons in the brain are like vast networks, receiving thousands of signals from other neurons through tiny structures called synapses.


Researchers from Bonn and Japan have clarified how neighboring synapses coordinate their response to plasticity signals: Nerve cells in the brain receive thousands of synaptic signals via their “antenna,” the so-called dendritic branch. Permanent changes in synaptic strength correlate with changes in the size of dendritic spines. However, it was previously unclear how the neurons implement these changes in strength across several synapses that are close to each other and active at the same time.

The researchers—from the University Hospital Bonn (UKB), the University of Bonn, the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) and the RIKEN Center for Brain Science (CBS)—assume that the competition between for molecular resources and the spatial distance between simultaneously stimulated spines affect their resulting dynamics. The results of the study have now been published in the journal Nature Communications.

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Sep 3, 2024

Australia’s most powerful battery ready for commissioning after achieving grid’s biggest connection

Posted by in category: energy

The most powerful battery in Australia, and biggest single power unit ever to be connected to the country’s main grid, has completed the first stage of its connection and commissioning process, according to its owner Akaysha Energy.

The Waratah Super Battery will be sized at 850 megawatts (MW) and 1,680 megawatt hours (MWh), and its principal role will be to act as a kind of giant shock absorber, allowing the power lines transporting renewable power from the regions to the major load centres on the coast to operate at or near full capacity.

The battery is being built at the site of the already shuttered Munmorah coal fired generator, and will play a key role as the state’s remaining coal fired power plants are retired, even though the closure of the biggest of them all, the 2.88 GW Eraring generator, has been pushed back by at least two years to late 2027.

Sep 3, 2024

Vitamin D — Benefits and Deficiency Warning Signs

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

I might get banned for this! This will make you question everything you thought you knew about Vitamin D and modern medicine.

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Vitamin D – Benefits and Deficiency Warning Signs PDF by Dr. Berg.

Sep 2, 2024

Near‐Infrared Light Activated Formulation for the Spatially Controlled Release of CRISPR‐Cas9 Ribonucleoprotein for Brain Gene Editing

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, chemistry, nanotechnology, neuroscience

A nanoparticle formulation, using oligonucleotide chemistry, able to release a gene editing system with single cell resolution after near infrared laser activation. The full potential of the formulation was demonstrated in the brain after intracerebral and intranasal administrations. The spot of the laser defined the region of gene editing.

Sep 2, 2024

Integrated platform for multiscale molecular imaging and phenotyping of the human brain

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, computing, neuroscience

Understanding cellular architectures and their connectivity is essential for interrogating system function and dysfunction. However, we lack technologies for mapping the multiscale details of individual cells and their connectivity in the human organ–scale system. We developed a platform that simultaneously extracts spatial, molecular, morphological, and connectivity information of individual cells from the same human brain. The platform includes three core elements: a vibrating microtome for ultraprecision slicing of large-scale tissues without losing cellular connectivity (MEGAtome), a polymer hydrogel–based tissue processing technology for multiplexed multiscale imaging of human organ–scale tissues (mELAST), and a computational pipeline for reconstructing three-dimensional connectivity across multiple brain slabs (UNSLICE).

Sep 2, 2024

Two-in-one breakthrough: Cutting-edge immunotherapy could hold promise for incurable brain cancer

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

WEHI researchers have found a specific immunotherapy could hold promise for treating gliomas, an aggressive form of brain cancer with limited treatment options.

The new study shows that CAR T cell therapy not…


Researchers at WEHI have identified a promising new two-in-one treatment that not only targets and destroys an aggressive form of brain cancer, but also helps the immune system develop a lasting defence against it.

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Sep 2, 2024

AI may not steal many jobs after all. It may just make workers more efficient

Posted by in categories: employment, robotics/AI

WASHINGTON (AP) — Imagine a customer-service center that speaks your language, no matter what it is.

Alorica, a company in Irvine, California, that runs customer-service centers around the world, has introduced an artificial intelligence translation tool that lets its representatives talk with customers who speak 200 different languages and 75 dialects.

So an Alorica representative who speaks, say, only Spanish can field a complaint about a balky printer or an incorrect bank statement from a Cantonese speaker in Hong Kong. Alorica wouldn’t need to hire a rep who speaks Cantonese.

Sep 2, 2024

Are we alone? Intelligent aliens may be rare, new study suggests

Posted by in category: futurism

The fact that we don’t see anything out there means that if they did exist, they vanished long ago and their signatures have decayed away.

Sep 2, 2024

AI companies that say AGI is close are using dubious definitions to make that claim, AI pioneer says

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Investors are pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into the AI industry right now, and much of that is going toward the development of a still theoretical technology: artificial general intelligence.

OpenAI, the maker of the buzzy chatbot ChatGPT, has made creating AGI a top priority. Its Big Tech competitors, Google, Meta, and Microsoft, are also devoting their top researchers to the same goal.

Sep 2, 2024

Artificial General Intelligence in 2025: Good Luck With That

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

AI experts have said it would likely be 2050 before AGI hits the market. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says 2025, but it’s a very difficult problem to solve.

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