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“Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.”

558 posts by Nicholi Avery

• Alzheimer’s Proteins Reduced by Sleep Drug – April 26, 2023
• Study Says Staying Positive About Aging May Help Reverse Cognitive Decline – April 24, 2023
• Scientists Can Now Process Data as Fast as the Speed of Light – April 17, 2023
• Study finds centenarians possess unique immunity that helps them achieve exceptional longevity – March 31, 2023
• Got 11 minutes? A daily brisk walk could lower risk for early death – March 1, 2023
• Lawrence Krauss: ChatGPT riddled with wokism, as it is programmed to avoid giving offence – February 26, 2023
• This Chinese kissing device lets you smooch over the internet – February 25, 2023
• James Webb Space Telescope images shatter understanding of age of the universe – February 25, 2023
• Scientists Propose Method for Detecting Alien Warp Drive Activity – February 23, 2023
• Tesla Cybertruck sightings continue, this time with better look at air suspension – February 22, 2023
• Noam Chomsky on AI: The Singularity is Science Fiction! – February 22, 2023
• Testing their strength: CAR T-cells combat muscle inflammation – February 20, 2023
• ChatGPT creator Sam Altman says the world may not be ‘that far away from potentially scary’ AI and feels ‘regulation will be critical’ – February 20, 2023
• Common Levels of Traffic Pollution Found To Rapidly Impair Brain Function – February 19, 2023
• 1st UK child to receive gene therapy for fatal genetic disorder is now ‘happy and healthy’ – February 17, 2023
• Healthy fast food start up takes on the McDonald’s empire – February 16, 2023
• Human brain cells in a dish learn to play Pong faster than an AI – February 16, 2023
• ‘It became me’: Studies show that revolutionary new brain chips may bend your mind in strange and troubling ways – February 15, 2023
• VRChat Sex Worker Denied Entry To US Over ‘Prostitution’ – February 15, 2023
• Gene Expression in Neurons Solves a Brain Evolution Puzzle – February 15, 2023
• Scientists regenerate kidneys to reverse diabetes damage in mice – February 13, 2023
• Mark Zuckerberg demos a tool for building virtual worlds using voice commands – February 12, 2023
• Researchers develop new method for specializing and purifying human stem cells into interneurons – February 9, 2023
• Transplanting a Gene Common in Centenarians Could Rewind The Heart’s Age – February 9, 2023
• Physicists want to use gravitational waves to ‘see’ the beginning of time – February 9, 2023
• Where is the mind within the brain? Transient selection of subnetworks by metabotropic receptors and G protein-gated ion channels – February 8, 2023
• AI is deciphering a 2,000-year-old ‘lost book’ describing life after Alexander the Great – February 8, 2023
• MRI scans reveal changes in brains wiring after cold water shock – February 7, 2023
• Microsoft launches the new Bing, with ChatGPT built in – February 7, 2023
• Prolific autism researcher has two dozen papers retracted – February 6, 2023
• Blobs of human brain planted in rats offer new treatment hope – February 5, 2023
• Goodbye coffee, hello brain stimulation? People are zapping their brains at home to clear brain fog – February 5, 2023
• Ideal blood pressure may remodel brain clearance pathways linked to brain health, dementia – February 4, 2023
• Scientists develop new device to detect brain tumors using urine – February 4, 2023
• How ‘modern-day slavery’ in the Congo powers the rechargeable battery economy – February 2, 2023
• Robert M. Sapolsky – February 1, 2023
• Do you think this is something to be concerned about? – January 30, 2023
• Electric vehicles more expensive to fuel than gas-powered cars at end of 2022: consulting firm – January 28, 2023
• A drug that increases dopamine can reverse the effects of inflammation on the brain in depression, Emory study shows – January 27, 2023
• Experimental Cancer Therapy Shows Success in More Than 70 Percent of Patients in Global Clinical Trials – January 23, 2023
• Transcendent Man: The Law of Accelerating Returns – January 23, 2023
• A New Field of Neuroscience Aims to Map Connections in the Brain – January 20, 2023
• Squid and human brains develop the same way despite diverging 500 million years ago – January 19, 2023
• An epigenetic mechanism for over-consolidation of fear memories – January 14, 2023
• UVA Solves Mysteries About Leading Biomarker for Alzheimer’s – January 13, 2023
• New research identifies a cognitive mechanism linked to reduced susceptibility to fake news – January 10, 2023
• Brain Area Necessary for Fluid Intelligence Identified — Defining Feature of Human Cognition – January 10, 2023
• Variety of healthy eating patterns linked with lower risk of premature death – January 10, 2023
• Human and Neanderthal brains have a surprising ‘youthful’ quality in common, new research finds – January 9, 2023
• Mirror test of wild penguins suggests they may possess self-awareness – January 8, 2023
• Lab-grown retinal eye cells make successful connections, open door for clinical trials to treat blindness – January 4, 2023
• Artificial DNA can kill cancer – January 3, 2023
• Researchers study pain-relieving neural mechanisms – January 2, 2023
• Stanford researchers think a wireless brain implant could remove tumors – January 1, 2023
• New research reveals how the brain holds information in mind – December 31, 2022
• Study sheds light on why human lymph nodes lose their function with age – December 29, 2022
• This is your brain. This is your brain on code – December 25, 2022
• Massive tentacled microbe may be direct ancestor of all complex life – December 24, 2022
• Research shows fatty liver disease endangers brain health – December 23, 2022
• The Disturbing Reality of Cobalt Mining for Rechargeable Batteries – December 22, 2022
• Big dynorphin may protect neurons from the accumulation of Alzheimer’s-associated amyloid – December 22, 2022
• Study unveils neural pathway promoting regeneration after traumatic injuries – December 21, 2022
• Our Protective Outer Layer – December 20, 2022
• Life-changing: New gene therapy gel heals decades-old wounds from skin disease – December 19, 2022
• ChatGPT: Optimizing Language Models for Dialogue – December 14, 2022
• CAR-T-cell shows promise in patients with lymphoma of the brain and spinal cord in early trial – December 12, 2022
• Research explores early predictors of children’s language delays – December 12, 2022
• Flipping the switch: Scientists shed new light on genetic changes that turn ‘on’ cancer genes – December 8, 2022
• How neurons autonomously regulate their excitability – December 7, 2022
• How touch dampens the brain’s response to painful stimuli – December 2, 2022
• Measuring Potency of Cell and Gene Therapy Products – November 27, 2022
• Researchers Say They Are Close To Reversing Aging – November 26, 2022
• Elon Musk Is Not a Renegade Outsider—He’s a Massive Pentagon Contractor – November 25, 2022
• Fasting triggers stem cell regeneration of damaged, old immune system – November 22, 2022
• The Kaplan–Yorke conjecture: the Hausdorff dimension of a strange attractor can be computed just from its Lyapunov exponents — – November 22, 2022
• Dr. David Sinclair – November 22, 2022
• Empathy Estimated Using Single-Cell Recordings in Human Brain – November 16, 2022
• The Gut Microbiome Helps Social Skills Develop in the Brain – November 15, 2022
• NIH grant funds cancer prevention vaccine research – November 15, 2022
• Beer Ingredient May Inhibit Clumping of Alzheimer’s Protein – November 14, 2022
• Scientists identify neurons that restore walking after paralysis – November 13, 2022
• Conscious Reality Is Only a Memory of Unconscious Actions, Scientists Propose In Radical New Theory – November 4, 2022
• Nicotine Blocks Estrogen Production in Women’s Brains – November 1, 2022
• C. Ola Landgren, M.D., Ph.D – October 22, 2022
• #alzheimers #science #Brain #dentist #dentistry #oralhealth #disease #alzheimersawareness #alzheimerscare #health #Wow #amazing – October 19, 2022
• Porphyromonas gingivalis Conditioned Medium Induces Amyloidogenic Processing of the Amyloid-β Protein Precursor upon in vitro Infection of SH-SY5Y Cells – October 9, 2022
• Can Artificial Intelligence Read Your Mind? – September 21, 2022
• A Breakthrough Cancer Treatment – September 14, 2022
• Groundbreaking Alzheimer’s Case: Gene APOE3 – September 12, 2022
• The Axolotl Can Regenerate Their Own Brains: New Research – September 11, 2022
• A Shared Biology Between Reading, Writing, and Linguistics! – September 6, 2022
• Playlist Psychology created by @Nicholi – September 6, 2022
• Blood Transfusion of Older Mice into Younger Mice! – September 3, 2022
• #Lsd Promotes #Memory #Neuroplasticity And Possibl #Neurogenesis – August 21, 2022
• Fast-acting T-Cells Provide Powerful Protection Against Stroke – August 18, 2022
• New Alzheimer’s Drug Avoids Inflammatory Side Effects – August 15, 2022
• Do spiders sleep? Study suggests they may snooze like humans – August 15, 2022
• The Amazing Brain: Two Memories at the Same Time! – August 14, 2022
• The Brain’s Filtration System in Real Time! – August 14, 2022
• Non-invasive MR imaging of human brain lymphatic networks with connections to cervical lymph nodes – August 12, 2022
• Scientists Create World’s First Synthetic Embryo! – August 7, 2022
• Stanford Neuroscientist: Rejuvenating Aging Brains – August 6, 2022
• New Experimental Drug Shown to Foster Nerve Regeneration! – August 5, 2022
• Cancer Bills, organized by Nicholas Avery – August 4, 2022
• What can sea squirts tell us about neurodegeneration? – August 2, 2022
• Elon Musk — People Will Understand — Finally It’s Happening! – July 29, 2022
• Research shows investigational drug fosters nerve repair after injury – July 27, 2022
• An #amazing #animation of #dopamine Transmission Across the #neurons #neuroscience #science #brainpower #thoughts #Wow #beautiful #biology – July 26, 2022
• An animation showing the Dopaminergic system Transmission Across the Synapses! – July 26, 2022
• Potential fabrication in research images threatens key theory of Alzheimer’s disease – July 23, 2022
• Scientists develop blueprint for turning stem cells into sensory interneurons – July 20, 2022
• Study Suggests Brain Processes Information like Ocean Waves – July 18, 2022
• The Most detailed #map of a #fruit #fly #brain #neuroscience #Wow #amazing #science #biology #evolution – July 14, 2022
• Global team of scientists discover new gene causing severe neurodevelopmental delays – July 13, 2022
• During sleep the brain’s reaction to sound remains strong but one critical feature of conscious attention disappears – July 12, 2022
• Google Engineer on His Sentient AI Claim – July 8, 2022
• ABSTRACT: @Nicholiscience – July 7, 2022
• Lab Results – July 6, 2022
• Lex Fridman on Google engineer’s claim that AI became sentient – July 2, 2022
• Flu vaccines linked to 40% reduced risk of Alzheimer’s disease – July 1, 2022
• The century-old picture of a nerve spike is wrong: filaments fire, before membrane – June 30, 2022
• #Brain #neuroscience #LSD #consciousness #experience #Science #dopamine #seretonin #neuroscience #mind – June 28, 2022
• Nicholi on TikTok – June 24, 2022
• Elon Musk, SpaceX And Tesla Sued For $258 Billion In Alleged Dogecoin ‘Pyramid Scheme’ – June 19, 2022
• A #Google #Engineer claims that an #AI #program he had been working on has become #conscious. #Sentient #Brain #Neuroscience #Science – June 15, 2022
• Tesla Fact vs. Fiction: Why the Public Perception is Wrong – June 12, 2022
• Scientists announce a breakthrough in determining life’s origin on Earth—and maybe Mars – June 5, 2022
• A researcher’s avatar was sexually assaulted on a metaverse platform owned by Meta – May 30, 2022
• A new approach to therapy-resistant tumors targets a specific cell-death pathway – May 26, 2022
• Researchers may have found the missing link between Alzheimer’s and vascular disease – May 25, 2022
• First-ever recording of dying human brain reveals dreaming-like activity – May 18, 2022
• Scientists prove diseased blood vessels communicate with the brain – May 17, 2022
• A superyacht captain deployed sonic weapons and ‘pain rays’ to fend off pirates armed with Kalashnikovs, worker says – April 26, 2022
• Welcome back to Instagram – April 24, 2022
• Mapping the brain to understand the mind – April 24, 2022
• A collaboration between researchers at Columbia and the Icahn School of Medicine is embarking on a project that will generate comprehensive atlases of entire human brains and all their 180+ billion cells – April 21, 2022
• Researchers undertake challenge to image every cell in the human brain at unprecedented speed – April 20, 2022
• AI maps psychedelic ‘trip’ experiences to regions of the brain — opening new route to psychiatric treatments – April 11, 2022
• Neuroscientists Are Confident the Secret to Reversing Brain Damage Is Restoring Brain Plasticity – April 4, 2022
• Tiny Experimental Implant Could Treat Neuropathic Pain – April 3, 2022
• Expert Says Humans Could Live Longer – March 31, 2022
• Tuberculosis Induces Premature Cellular Aging – March 30, 2022
• Enzyme blocker could open new treatments for neurodegenerative diseases – March 29, 2022
• Mind-Body Philosophy | Solving the Hard Problem of Consciousness with Patrick Grim – March 24, 2022
• Brain implant helps completely ‘locked-in’ man communicate – March 23, 2022
• Cognitive distortions linked to safetyism beliefs, support for trigger warnings, and the belief that words are harmful – March 20, 2022
• Neuro-symbolic AI brings us closer to machines with common sense – March 15, 2022
• New Discoveries Reveal Information’s Flow in the Brain – March 11, 2022
• Shared by Chair of Urban Warfare Studies, Madison Policy Forum | Major, US Army (ret) | Author, Connected Soldiers – March 9, 2022
• Targeting the cell cycle could overcome cancer treatment resistance – March 4, 2022
• A first glimpse of the human brain’s drains – March 2, 2022
• AI Teaches Brain Tumor Surgery Better Than Human Experts – February 28, 2022
• Researchers discover new information about the effects of sleep on the human brain – February 26, 2022
• Risk, resiliency in aging brain focus of $33 million grant – February 24, 2022
• COVID-19 patients face higher risk of brain fog and depression, even 1 year after infection – February 22, 2022
• Engineered Wnt ligands enable blood-brain barrier repair in neurological disorders – February 21, 2022
• Stretchable Mesh Nanoelectronics for 3D Single‐Cell Chronic Electrophysiology from Developing Brain Organoids – February 15, 2022
• Out of a total of 23 monkeys implanted with Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain chips at the University of California Davis between 2017 and 2020, at least 15 reportedly died – February 12, 2022
• Researchers introduce into human cells a genetic mutation that protects against Alzheimer’s disease – February 11, 2022
• The Neuroscience of Consciousness – February 8, 2022
• New Research Finds That With Obesity, the Problem Isn’t an Excess of Fat but Its Loss of Function – February 6, 2022
• Kids Can Infer Close Relationships Through Saliva Sharing – February 2, 2022
• RefSeek 404 – February 1, 2022
• How ‘Dormant’ Cells In The Aging Brain Contribute To Cognitive Decline – February 1, 2022
• Scientists were able to regrow frog legs. Will it pave the way for human regeneration? – January 31, 2022
• Can deep sleep help devastating brain disorders? Scientists studying Parkinson’s want to find out – January 29, 2022
• Anti-aging vaccine clears out dysfunctional cells that cause disease – January 27, 2022
• WSU Master Class: Big Brains, Small Brains with Suzana Herculano-Houzel – January 26, 2022
• WSU Master Class: Inflationary Cosmology with Alan Guth – January 26, 2022
• Modifying One Gene Allows Mice to Live 23% Longer – January 26, 2022
• Gut bacterial metabolite could improve muscle endurance in aging – January 26, 2022
• Less wattage, more brain power – January 23, 2022
• Sex-typical behavior of mice guided by differences in brain’s gene activity – January 22, 2022
• Marine Satellite Antenna – January 22, 2022
• Meat-based vs Plant-based Diet for Longevity | David Sinclair and Lex Fridman – January 21, 2022
• Study: Reducing Snoring May Help Put Brain Health Risks to Rest – January 21, 2022
• Link: Big Pharma loses top scientist to anti-aging research – January 20, 2022
• GSK loses top scientist to anti-ageing start-up – January 20, 2022
• Something in Your Eyes May Reveal if You’re at Risk of Early Death, Study Shows – January 19, 2022
• Cellular support network boosts the regeneration of injured nerves – January 19, 2022
• Are skin, hair, posture and vitality good indicators of biological age? – January 19, 2022
• Unknown voices spark more brain activity in sleep than familiar ones – January 18, 2022
• UW–Madison researchers lead effort to create a universal coronavirus vaccine – January 18, 2022
• Tackling ageing may be best way to prevent multiple chronic conditions from developing in older people – January 17, 2022
• Are we oversimplifying Alzheimer’s disease? – January 17, 2022
• Long-term space flight may destroy red blood cells, making Elon Musk’s proposal to inhabit Mars more challenging than anticipated – January 16, 2022
• Our brains take a little while to update, study – January 13, 2022
• Scientists uncover new information about cellular death process, previously thought to be irreversible – January 11, 2022
• An artificial molecule with superpowers – January 10, 2022
• ‘Dark genome’ offers insight into bipolar and schizophrenia – January 9, 2022
• Dogs Can Distinguish Speech from Gibberish—and Tell Spanish from Hungarian – January 7, 2022
• Whistleblower warns baffling illness affects growing number of young adults in Canadian province – January 2, 2022
• Thousands of coma patients may be conscious but we’re ignoring them, says pioneering neuroscientist – December 31, 2021
• A study has been following ‘gifted’ kids for 45 years. Here’s what we’ve learned – December 28, 2021
• This Tech From UTS Could Be the Next Step in Controlling Robots With Our Brains – December 27, 2021
• Going to bed after this specific time damages metabolic health — study – December 26, 2021
• Scientists Identify Gut-Derived Metabolites that Play a Role in Neurodegeneration – December 23, 2021
• New ‘Anti-Aging’ Vaccine Has Increased Mouse Life Spans. Would It Work in Humans? – December 17, 2021
• New metacognition research provides insight into how the brain looks at itself – December 13, 2021
• Psychological Resilience Is Linked to How Much Stress Messes With Your Body – December 8, 2021
• Endgame: Ethereum 2.0 by Vitalik – December 7, 2021
• The Placebo Effect and God May Live in the Same Brain Region – December 7, 2021
• Debate: Bitcoin vs Gold with Anthony Scaramucci and Peter Schiff – December 6, 2021
• The Science of Mind Reading – December 1, 2021
• Why Jeff Bezos’ vision of space is “more expansive” than Elon Musk’s – November 30, 2021
• Magic mushroom study hints psilocybin repairs alcohol-induced brain damage – November 23, 2021
• “Deepfaking the Mind” Could Improve Brain-Computer Interfaces for People with Disabilities – November 19, 2021
• A key brain region responds to faces similarly in infants and adults – November 16, 2021
• Can lucid dreaming help us understand consciousness? – November 16, 2021
• Sponge Genes Hint at the Origins of Neurons and Other Cells – November 14, 2021
• New neuroscience study finds neighborhood disadvantage is linked to altered brain maturation in adolescence – November 14, 2021
• Rivian Stock Price Prediction: Elon Musk Reveals “True Test” for New Tesla Competitor – November 12, 2021
• Psilocybin Found To Rapidly Improve Depressive Symptoms In Patients During ‘Groundbreaking’ Clinical Trial – November 12, 2021
• Anti-aging research uncovers new role for telomeres – November 11, 2021
• Meet ROSA: Robot guides brain surgery at Houston VA – November 10, 2021
• Elon Musk’s Twitter Poll Results Favor Tesla Stock Sale – November 8, 2021
• The Brain Can Recall and Reawaken Past Immune Responses – November 8, 2021
• A New Barrier in the Brain Is Detected – November 8, 2021
• Tech & Science Daily: The world’s first ‘thinking’ robot – November 2, 2021
• MRI and Ultrasound Can Sneak Cancer Drugs into the Brain – October 30, 2021
• Machine learning reveals brain networks involved in child aggression – October 27, 2021
• Scientists Grow “Mini Brains” in the Lab — Find Potential Treatment Path for Fatal Neurological Disease – October 27, 2021
• Innovating to restore abilities lost to neurological damage – October 25, 2021
• Team discovers a new approach to unveil the Origin of Life: Evaporation – October 21, 2021
• Earth’s demise could rid galaxy of meaning, warns Brian Cox ahead of Cop26 – October 20, 2021
• Why longtermism is the world’s most dangerous secular credo – October 19, 2021
• Flying Microchips The Size Of A Sand Grain Could Be Used For Population Surveillance – September 25, 2021
• Scientists propose a novel approach to treating Alzheimer’s disease and other related diseases – August 28, 2021
• This 20-person biotech firm just beat Elon Musk’s Neuralink in getting the OK to test brain chip implants in humans with paralysis – July 28, 2021
• RedHill Biopharma reports preliminary results from new preclinical study showing potent inhibition of COVID-19 variants – July 1, 2021
• Viking Therapeutics Announces Results from Phase 1 Clinical Trial of Novel Oral Thyroid Receptor Beta Agonist VK0214 – June 17, 2021
• ‘Next big wave’: Radiation drugs track and kill cancer cells – June 4, 2021
• Neuralink Brain Chip Will End Language in Five to 10 Years, Elon Musk Says – June 3, 2021
• Cities Have Unique Microbial ‘Fingerprints’, First Study of Its Kind Reveals – May 31, 2021
• Calculations Show Humans Can’t Contain Superintelligent Machines – May 31, 2021
• Had COVID? You’ll probably make antibodies for a lifetime – May 28, 2021
• Estimating infectiousness throughout SARS-CoV-2 infection course – May 25, 2021
• The CDC’s new mask guidelines could actually increase risk of spreading Covid at work and in public, scientists say – May 22, 2021
• Study solves mystery of how amyloid beta forms in brain nerve cells – May 19, 2021
• Elon Musk reveals he has Asperger’s syndrome 09.05.2021 – May 9, 2021
• Surely We Can Do Better Than Elon Musk – May 2, 2021
• Famed Neurobiologist Slams Neuralink’s Monkey Demo – April 12, 2021
• Social Determinants of Health Impact Fetal Brain Development – April 1, 2021
• Scientists Create ‘Clock’ That Measures Biological Age – March 7, 2021
• CRISPR Treatment Offers The Potential To Live Forever – February 11, 2021
• How Scientists Reversed Aging, And What It Means For You – February 8, 2021
• Scientists Invent a Microscope That Can Safely Look Straight Through Your Skull – December 4, 2020
• ‘Wonderful news to wake up to’: U.K. greenlights Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine – December 2, 2020
• New insights from study of people age 90 and above – November 23, 2020
• Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy: First Human Study Shows Reversal in Biology of Aging – November 18, 2020
• Pilot In A Real Aircraft Just Fought An AI-Driven Virtual Enemy Jet For The First Time – November 16, 2020
• Hand-sanitizer resistant bacteria strains are developing – November 14, 2020
• Virgin Hyperloop Wonders: What Does 600 MPH Travel Do to the Brain? – October 30, 2020
• European startups that are hacking the brain better than Neuralink – October 26, 2020
• No Implants Needed For Precise Control Deep Into The Brain – October 26, 2020
• Neural Dust: Millimeter-Sized Brain Stimulators – October 25, 2020
• Elon Musk’s Neuralink is neuroscience theater – October 25, 2020
• Breakthrough Shows Neuropilin-1 Drives SARS-CoV-2 Infectivity – October 21, 2020
• Could cold water hold a clue to a dementia cure? – October 19, 2020
• Home-Made Covid Vaccine Appeared to Work, but Questions Remained – October 11, 2020
• What Brain-Computer Interfaces Could Mean for the Future of Work – October 9, 2020
• The brain-computer interface is coming, and we are so not ready for it – September 16, 2020
• Using personal frequency to control brain activity – August 18, 2020
• Tesla Has Been Working On an RNA Bioreactor – August 12, 2020
• Lower Education Levels May Decrease Survival in Multiple Myeloma – August 12, 2020
• Trial data support dexamethasone, but not hydroxychloroquine, for COVID-19 – July 30, 2020
• ‘Love hormone’ oxytocin could be used to treat cognitive disorders like Alzheimer’s – July 28, 2020
• A Possible Weapon Against the Pandemic: Printing Human Tissue – July 27, 2020
• New Argonne supercomputer, built for next-gen AI, will be most powerful in U.S. – July 26, 2020
• Neurotransmitter-derived lipidoids (NT-lipidoids) for enhanced brain delivery through intravenous injection – July 25, 2020
• Researchers Examine Age Differences in How the Brain Perceives, Remembers – July 24, 2020
• Optimizing neural networks on a brain-inspired computer – July 23, 2020
• Neuroscientists at Vanderbilt identify the brain cells that help humans adapt to change – July 17, 2020
• Drugs, money and misleading evidence – July 8, 2020
• Scientists in China reused identical scientific images in more than 120 medical research papers, which ended up in international journals, report says – July 7, 2020
• Astronomers have found the source of life in the universe – July 6, 2020
• Not so random acts: Science finds that being kind pays off – July 3, 2020
• Welcome to Cloud City: The case for going to Venus, not Mars – July 1, 2020
• New method for mapping brain areas – June 29, 2020
• Researchers find that common cancer treatments don’t worsen coronavirus infection – June 24, 2020
• One-Time Treatment Generates New Neurons, Eliminates Parkinson’s Disease in Mice – June 24, 2020
• Netflix ‘Pandemic’ Star Just Showed His Covid-19 Antibody Drug Works In Hamsters. How Quickly Could It Treat Humans? – June 17, 2020
• Help for Nicholi – June 9, 2020
• Robert Sapolsky: We’re uniquely violent and compassionate – May 30, 2020
• Reducing transmission of SARS-CoV-2 – May 28, 2020
• Applying physics to understanding the mystery of consciousness – May 25, 2020
• Why the Hippocampus May Be the Most Important Region in Your Brain – May 24, 2020
• The Promise of Antibody Treatments for Covid-19 – May 24, 2020
• Remdesivir for the Treatment of Covid-19 — Preliminary Report – May 23, 2020
• Neurobiologist Finds Potent Pain-Suppression Center in the Brain – May 19, 2020
• Important: Important! The largest study yet on COVID-19 fatality shows top risks: – May 15, 2020
• Men have high levels of enzyme key to COVID-19 infection, study finds – May 11, 2020
• A cluster of coronavirus cases in California was traced to a coughing patient at a birthday party – May 10, 2020
• Bat ‘super immunity’ may explain how bats carry coronaviruses – May 7, 2020
• IL-6 Blockade Treatment for Severe COVID-19 in Two Patients With Multiple Myeloma – May 6, 2020
• Brain–spleen connection aids antibody production – May 5, 2020
• Antibody prevents the COVID-19 virus from infecting human cells – May 4, 2020
• DARPA Is Creating a Travel Adapter That Will Be Implanted in Soldiers’ Bodies – May 3, 2020
• The Second Study on Vitamin D and COVID-19 Is Now Out – May 2, 2020
• Come join us for my talk on our broad spectrum anti-COVID antibodies – May 2, 2020
• Coronavirus attacks blood vessels all over the body, Swiss study finds – April 27, 2020
• WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute first in the world to open hippocampal blood brain barrier in Alzheimer’s patients – April 25, 2020
• Here are the so far identified genomic variants of COVID, we are up for quite a powerful enemy! – April 24, 2020
• Coronavirus Diagnoses In Staff Drop By Half After Boston Hospital Requires Masks For All – April 24, 2020
• How Blood Sugar Can Trigger a Deadly Immune Response in the Flu and Possibly COVID-19 – April 24, 2020
• You may have seen this chart in my last newsletter – April 23, 2020
• Origins of language pathway in the brain at least 25 million years old – April 21, 2020
• Insightful ideas can trigger orgasmic brain signals, finds study – April 20, 2020
• The problem with thinking you know more than the experts – April 19, 2020
• Covid-19 is shattering US cancer care – April 18, 2020
• How Data Is Critical to Engineering Antibodies to Block COVID-19 – April 18, 2020
• When Damaged, the Adult Brain Repairs Itself – April 18, 2020
• Analysis of the mutation dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 reveals the spread history and emergence of RBD mutant with lower ACE2 binding affinity – April 17, 2020
• Report: Covid-19 patients recovering quickly after getting experimental drug – April 16, 2020
• ‘Cough chamber’ shows six feet not far enough – April 15, 2020
• Source for non-doctors and doctors – April 14, 2020
• Virology lab finds drug originally meant for Ebola is effective against a key enzyme of coronavirus that causes COVID-19 – April 13, 2020
• Clinical presentation and virological assessment of hospitalized cases of coronavirus disease 2019 in a travel-associated transmission cluster – April 13, 2020
• For First Time in History, AI Learns to Translate Silent Human Brain Activity into Text for Locked-In Syndrome Patients – April 12, 2020
• Remdesivir Improves COVID-19 Symptoms in 68% of Patients in Early Study – April 12, 2020
• Neurologic Manifestations of Hospitalized Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019 in Wuhan, China – April 12, 2020
• Coronavirus ‘could be spreading across the globe through farts’ claim doctors – April 11, 2020
• There are serious problems with a widely shared ‘study’ claiming runners need to maintain 32 feet of distance for coronavirus protection, experts say – April 11, 2020
• Cyborg computer chips will get their brain from human neurons – April 11, 2020
• Covid-19 Research Update: Dr. Jacob Glanville and Sarah Ives – April 11, 2020
• A coronavirus vaccine could be ready by September, according to a British scientist who is developing one – April 11, 2020
• CSL Behring and Takeda Pharmaceutical Are Leading a Coalition to Develop a COVID-19 Hyperimmune Therapy – April 11, 2020
• Test for antibodies against novel coronavirus developed at Stanford Medicine – April 10, 2020
• Los superhéroes son reales… – April 10, 2020
• Sustained Cerebrovascular and Cognitive Benefits of Resveratrol in Postmenopausal Women – April 10, 2020
• Vitamin C Infusion for the Treatment of Severe 2019-nCoV Infected Pneumonia – April 10, 2020
• Whistleblower doctors say coronavirus reinfection even deadlier – April 9, 2020
• How does the coronavirus kill? – April 9, 2020
• SARS-CoV-2 infects T lymphocytes through its spike protein-mediated membrane fusion – April 9, 2020
• Alzheimer’s trial supports high amyloid levels as early sign of disease – April 8, 2020
• Blood from recovered coronavirus victims helps patient come off ventilator in just two days – April 8, 2020
• A single high dose of psilocybin alters brain function up to one month later – April 7, 2020
• Stability of SARS-CoV-2 in different environmental conditions – April 6, 2020
• What Could Be The Fastest Way To End The Coronavirus Crisis? – April 6, 2020
• COVID-19 Update 8: Zinc and chloroquine for the treatment of COVID-19? – April 6, 2020
• A new perspective – April 6, 2020
• Springing an evolutionary trap on cancer – April 5, 2020
• Yale study finds self-isolation would dramatically reduce ICU bed demand – April 5, 2020
• No Evidence of Rapid Antiviral Clearance or Clinical Benefit with the Combination of Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin in Patients with Severe COVID-19 Infection – April 4, 2020
• Trial drug can significantly block early stages of COVID-19 in engineered human tissues – April 4, 2020
• The FDA-approved Drug Ivermectin inhibits the replication of SARS-CoV-2 in vitro – April 3, 2020
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