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By Alain Cappy, Professor Emeritus of Electronics, University of Lille The brain remains the king of computers. The most ...

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New research supports brain cell transplantation as a treatment for some neurological disorders. A team from McGill ...

With 140,000 neurons, 50 million synapses and over 100,000 cell label annotations, the fruit fly brain has been mapped and ...

2024 — Resting brain stem cells hardly differ from normal astrocytes, which support the nerve cells in the brain. How can almost identical cells perform such different functions? The key lies in the ...