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A baby mouse

Nick Harris via Flickr

The mother's gut microbiome helps a child's brain develop its senses

Without the maternal microbiome, a mouse's thalamus under-develops, resulting in reduced sensory processing

Simon Spichak
11/8/2020, 11:05 PM
  • neurons
  • brains
  • development
  • senses
  • neuroengineering
Chad Stephens uses Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) technology for his research efforts at NASA’s Langley Research Center. Here, he is using a dry electrode g.tec GAMMAcap and the P300 Spelling System to communicate.

NASA/Sean Smith

Connecting brains to machines may let bacteria come along for the ride

Brain-machine interfaces like Elon Musk's Neuralink have come a long way, but biological limitations remain

Amy R Nippert
12/15/2019, 11:25 PM
  • neuroscience
  • brains
  • neuroengineering
  • brain machine interface
  • elon musk
A neuron hooked up to a nanowire array, to read the neuron's electrical activitiy.

Integrated Electronics and Biointerfaces Laboratory, UC San Diego 

Miniature brains the size of a pea are sending out brainwaves for the first time

Are they fetal brains in a jar? No. Should we still be excited and slightly concerned? Yes.

Thiago Arzua
12/11/2019, 2:17 AM
  • organoid
  • neuroscience
  • Neurogenesis
  • artificial organs
  • neurons

 Photo by howling red on Unsplash

What's wrong with injecting human brain genes into monkeys?

Katherine Basil
4/25/2019, 1:05 PM
  • mind control
  • brains
  • neuroscience
  • neuroengineering
  • genetic engineering
A man wearing an electroencephalography cap, with many wires protruding from a white nylon hat.

Tim Sheerman-Chase via Flickr

Scientists sent thoughts from brain to brain with nothing in between

It's not sci-fi, it's not mind control, but a real world attempt at telepathy

Jordan Harrod
3/12/2019, 1:57 AM
  • brains
  • neuroengineering
  • electroencephalography
  • tetris
  • mind control