Credit: PixaobayDelicate probes, as thin as wires, inserted into the brains of living individuals reveal the functions performed by individual neurons.An unparalleled degree of insight into how humans comprehend speech has been made possible by recordings from hundreds of individual neurons while patients undergoing brain surgery listened to this and 199 other sentences. The...
Neurons. Credit: Unsplash.A research team from the University of Lausanne (UNIL) and the Wyss Center has uncovered a novel class of brain cells that plays a pivotal role in brain function. These cells, possessing hybrid characteristics between neurons and glial cells, are found in various brain regions in mice and humans, offering unique insights into memory,...
Brain. Credit: Unsplash.Researchers at Neurona Therapeutics, a biotech company based in San Francisco, have achieved a remarkable reduction of over 90 percent in seizures experienced by two epilepsy patients through a brain injection. The patients were administered NRTX-1001, an experimental cell therapy developed by the company. Prior to the treatment, the patients were suffering...
