Researchers Develop RNA Barcode Technique to Map Brain Connectivity
📰 Original title: Scientists map the brain’s hidden wiring using RNA barcodes in major breakthrough
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#neuroscience #rna #brainmapping #neurons

Researchers Develop RNA Barcode Technique to Map Brain Connectivity
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have created a novel method to map brain connectivity using RNA barcodes. This approach, called Connectome-seq…
KillBait ArchiveResearchers Develop RNA Barcode Technique to Map Brain Connectivity
📰 Original title: Scientists map the brain’s hidden wiring using RNA barcodes in major breakthrough
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅
View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/researchers-develop-rna-barcode-technique-to-map-brain-connectivity/?redirpost=ecf1b429-3606-4e85-bc2e-b228b665c744
#neuroscience #rna #brainmapping #neurons

Researchers Develop RNA Barcode Technique to Map Brain Connectivity
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have created a novel method to map brain connectivity using RNA barcodes. This approach, called Connectome-seq…
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Bird brains
A kea parrot in New Zealand learned to drag traffic cones onto a highway so cars would stop and humans would feed it. That sent me down a rabbit hole on how we actually measure bird intelligence.

These Mini Brains Just Learned to Solve a Classic Engineering Problem
In a step toward biological computing, brain organoids rewired their networks as they learned to balance a digital pole on a cart.
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#wakefulness induced by pharmacological or non-pharma routes involve different
#neurons? This study of whole-brain activation patterns in mouse shows that solriamfetol, modafinil & non-pharma
#arousal recruit overlapping but distinct subcortical populations
@PLOSBiology https://plos.io/4soFNVK
Pharmacological and non-pharmacological methods of inducing wakefulness activate distinct neural populations in the mouse brain
Wakefulness arises from multiple neuronal systems but it is unclear whether the same or different neurons are activated during pharmacological or non-pharmacological intervention. This study uses the TRAP2 mouse model to examine whole-brain activation patterns and shows that solriamfetol, modafinil and nonpharmacological arousal recruit overlapping but distinct subcortical populations.
We do not have any drugs available for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease (AD).
Rik van der Kant showed exciting insights at #KNCVMCCB2026 into, how they screen for potential drugs using pTau accumulation in neurons derived from iPSCs of AD-patients.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1934590918306039?via%3Dihub
#DrugDiscovery #AD #Alzheimer #Neurons

Newly identified brain circuit and cells link prior experiences to appetite
Our past experiences shape how much we eat and where and what we choose to eat. Using preclinical models, researchers from Mass General Brigham and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have identified brain cells that translate contextual information into appetite control.
Medical XpressGizmodo: A Dish of Neurons Playing DOOM Is the Wildest Thing I’ve Seen in Ages. “A couple of years ago, a company called Cortical Labs released a video that showed a simplified version of Pong being played by a culture of human neurons in a Petri dish. The idea that a bunch of neurons in a dish can do anything is impressive enough, but it turns out that things have gotten significantly […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/03/gizmodo-a-dish-of-neurons-playing-doom-is-the-wildest-thing-ive-seen-in-ages/
Gizmodo: A Dish of Neurons Playing DOOM Is the Wildest Thing I’ve Seen in Ages
Gizmodo: A Dish of Neurons Playing DOOM Is the Wildest Thing I’ve Seen in Ages. “A couple of years ago, a company called Cortical Labs released a video that showed a simplified version of Pon…
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