Today, an international team of researchers shared an extraordinarily detailed atlas of human brain cells, mapping its staggering diversity of neurons. The atlas was published as part of a massive package of 21 papers in the journal Science, each taking complementary approaches to the same overarching questions: What cell types exist in the brain? And […]
Read MoreRemember last year when SpaceX and T-Mobile announced that they are working on a way to beam data directly to your phone from space satellites? That service will launch next year, but it will have a gradual rollout of capabilities. This means that in 2024 only texting will be supported as a sort of trial […]
Read MoreThis revelation offers insight into why we age and what critical cellular machinery we must keep running to combat age-related diseases, according to Maria Carolina Florian, a stem cell biologist at the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies who was not involved in the work. To Florian, it suggests the possibility of creating drugs […]
Read MoreThe Apple Watch can help treat a key symptom of sickle cell disease and changes to Apple’s speech recognition algorithm could help people with a stutter, new studies propose. According to a study conducted by researchers at Duke University’s Day Hospital (via MyHealthyApple), the Apple Watch could help treat vaso-occlusive crises (VOCs), a key complication […]
Read MoreEvie Junior’s life has been defined by pain. He was born with sickle cell disease, which causes red blood cells to be sticky and C-shaped, not smooth and round. These cells are supposed to move freely through blood vessels, carrying oxygen to the body. But in people with this inherited form of anemia, they clump […]
Read More16 septembre 2020, nous découvrions avec une certaine excitation le partenariat entre Ubisoft et Oculus pour le développement de deux jeux VR de licences bien connues: Assassin’s Creed et Splinter Cell. Après cette annonce, aucune des deux parties n’a communiqué de manière officielle sur le développement de ces jeux. Il y a quelques mois, nous […]
Read MoreFrom the bizarre creatures in the depths of the oceans to the bacteria inside our bodies, all life on Earth consists of cells. But we have only a very rough idea of how even the simplest of those cells function. Now, as described recently in Cell, a team at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and […]
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