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Scientists improve chip memory by stacking cells

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (17) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Arizona State University have developed an elegant method for significantly improving the memory capacity of electronic chips.





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Organic flash memory developed

Organic flash memory developed

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (20) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Tokyo have developed a non-volatile memory that has the same basic structure as a flash memory but is made from cheap, flexible, organic materials.


3 Questions: Suzanne Corkin on the world's most famous amnesic

3 Questions: Suzanne Corkin on the world's most famous amnesic

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

H.M., the well-known amnesic patient whose condition helped scientists understand memory and memory impairment, died a year ago at the age of 82. H.M. (whose full name, Henry Gustav Molaison, was disclosed ...


Scientists identify strategies to protect new brain cells against Alzheimer's disease

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Stimulating the growth of new neurons to replace those lost in Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an intriguing therapeutic possibility. But will the factors that cause AD allow the new neurons to thrive and function normally? Scientists ...


Scientists discover how the brain encodes memories at a cellular level

Scientists discover how the brain encodes memories at a cellular level

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (31) | comments 16

Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have made a major discovery in how the brain encodes memories. The finding, published in the December 24 issue of the journal Neuron, could eventually lead to the development ...


Study reveals chemo's toxicity to brain, possible treatment

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers have developed a novel animal model showing that four commonly used chemotherapy drugs disrupt the birth of new brain cells, and that the condition could be partially reversed with the growth factor IGF-1.


Nerve-cell transplants help brain-damaged rats fully recover lost ability to learn

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Nerve cells transplanted into brain-damaged rats helped them to fully recover their ability to learn and remember, probably by promoting nurturing, protective growth factors, according to a new study.


Green tea chemical combined with another may hold promise for treatment of brain disorders

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 2

Scientists at Boston Biomedical Research Institute (BBRI) and the University of Pennsylvania have found that combining two chemicals, one of which is the green tea component EGCG, can prevent and destroy a variety of protein ...


New source discovered for the generation of nerve cells in the brain

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

The research group of Professor Magdalena Gotz of Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munich (Germany) has made a significant advance in understanding regeneration processes in the brain. The researchers ...


A reductionist approach to HIV research

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A major obstacle to HIV research is the virus's exquisite specialisation for its human host - meaning that scientists' traditional tools, like the humble lab mouse, can deliver only limited information. Now, a team of researchers ...


Researchers crack part of the neuronal code

Researchers crack part of the neuronal code

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Prostheses for paralysed patients, communication with patients who have lost all capacity for normal communication - the hopes for modern brain research are high. However, such brain-machine ...



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