All Neuroscience

Gene variant discovery could help treat Alzheimer's and other degenerative brain disorders
Added: 29 Jul 2021
New research suggests early changes in brain metabolism may explain the neurodegeneration suffered …

Researchers reduce severity of sleep apnoea by at least 30 per cent
Added: 5 Jul 2021
Imagine waking up a hundred times every night not being able to breathe! Believe it or not, data su…

Will remote clinical trials help or hinder?
Added: 28 May 2021
With the current world focus on remote solutions, some contract services appear to benefit from pla…

UKRI funding to bring the public into the heart of five research projects
Added: 27 May 2021
UK Research and Innovation is encouraging people from across the UK to actively contribute to five …

How moths find their flame - genetics of mate attraction discovered
Added: 14 May 2021
Biologists have discovered the gene controlling the mating preference of male European corn borer m…

Learning on the fly: Computer model links insect and mammalian learning
Added: 7 May 2021
Even the humble fruit fly craves a dose of the happy hormone, according to a new study from the Uni…

Trust-based not-for-profit biobank platform will offer left-over biosamples to biotech and Pharma researchers
Added: 28 Apr 2021
Left-over clinical material like blood samples and excised tissue may be medical waste, but it can …

Ultra-high definition predictive brain tool to guide surgery in drug-resistant epilepsy patients
Added: 25 Feb 2021
A third of epilepsy cases are drug resistant and removal of the area of the brain where seizures em…

Mapping neural dynamics: Making sense of mass neuron-generated data
Added: 19 Feb 2021
How do animals process information and adapt to environmental change? New research applies AI drive…

Biophilic building for human resilience and pandemic prevention
Added: 15 Feb 2021
Derived in 1964 by the social psychologist Erich Fromm, ‘biophilia’ means to love life. Here, archi…

Robotic exoskeleton training expands options for stroke rehabilitation
Added: 2 Feb 2021
It must be hard enough to recover from an acute stroke, but many find the physical taxation of reha…

Ousting spiritualist clairvoyance with scientific clairaudience
Added: 20 Jan 2021
Hearing voices can be a serious business - both for those afflicted and anyone they might choose to…

Cheers at The Bioprocess Arms - where everyone knows your name
Added: 18 Nov 2020
Cheers to BioProcessUK4.0!
Who said virtual events were boring? The BIA just upped expectations of…

Robots support growth in Medical, Pharmaceutical and Lifesciences sectors
Added: 15 Oct 2020
Mechatronics solutions expert, Simon Jenkins, highlights just one of the areas where robots are now…

Unravelling what makes memories so detailed and enduring
Added: 14 Sep 2020
In years to come, our personal memories of the COVID-19 pandemic are likely to be etched in our min…

Advanced Engineering and Lab Innovations: visitors are in safe hands
Added: 31 Jul 2020
The UK Government has recently endorsed the reopening of conferences and exhibitions, releasing a s…

How we encode smell
Added: 6 Jul 2020
Neuroscientists describe for the first time how relationships between different odours are encoded …

The human brain built by AI: A transatlantic collaboration
Added: 2 Jul 2020
The new German-Canadian lab, HIBALL, aims to create a microscopic 3D map of functional neuroanatomy…

Human rights in biomedicine: action plan 2020-2025
Added: 25 Jun 2020
On 24 June 2020, in Strasbourg, the Bioethics Committee launched its new action plan on human right…

Rats recognise rhythm
Added: 27 May 2020
Musical rhythm has very deep evolutionary roots and is present in some animals, according to a stud…