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Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis‘ stories of drug addiction and unusual relationships are making their way to the silver screen. Universal Pictures has optioned the singer’s 2004 memoir, Scar Tissue, to develop it into a biopic, according to Deadline. The producers include Kiedis, Chilis manager Guy Oseary, and Brian Grazer (A Beautiful Mind, Apollo 13). The source material, one of the greatest rock memoirs of all time, could provide a story that’s far darker than most music biopics. Keidis’ book,…

Scientists at the Princess Máxima Center and the Hubrecht Institute have developed brain organoids from human fetal brain tissue, offering new insights into brain development and disease modeling. These organoids, mirroring the complexity of the brain, could revolutionize research in neurology and oncology. (Artist’s concept.) Credit: SciTechDaily.comScientists have developed 3D mini-organs from human fetal brain tissue that self-organize in vitro. These lab-grown organoids open up a brand-new way of studying how the…

Scientists have found a way to skip some of the most challenging steps when building a miniature human brain model in the lab.Instead of coaxing stem cells to proliferate into the millions and grow into different types of cells, like neurons, researchers in the Netherlands have managed to develop a brain organoid straight from fetal brain tissue.The self-organizing structure that results is about the size of a grain of rice. While it is not a real organ (it has no thoughts, emotions, or consciousness), researchers hope…

As surprising as it may sound, our brains process information quicker than any computer could ever do.That’s because of our neurons’ ability to both serve as a processor and memory device, as opposed to the physically separated items needed in the majority of modern computing devices.After many tries, new efforts may have successfully made computing more brain-like by integrating real human brain tissue with electronics in a process called Brainoware.A team led by engineer Feng Guo of Indiana University Bloomington fed…

The human brain is unimaginably complex and powerful. In fact, no computer that mankind has built thus far has even come close. That’s why scientists have worked tirelessly to create cyborg computers, which blend the power of the human brain with the electronics of a computer.Now, researchers led by Feng Guo, an engineer from Indiana University Bloomington, have managed to create a computer using human brain tissue. The result is a more brain-like computer that is less accurate than a computer made purely of…

In a story ripped from the opening scenes of a sci-fi horror movie, scientists have bridged a critical gap between the biological and electronic. The study, published in Nature Electronics (summarized in Nature), details a “hybrid biocomputer” combining lab-grown human brain tissue with conventional circuits and AI. Dubbed Brainoware, the system learned to identify voices with 78 percent accuracy. It could one day lead to silicon microchips fused with neurons.Brainoware combines brain organoids — stem-cell-derived…

There is no computer even remotely as powerful and complex as the human brain. The lumps of tissue ensconced in our skulls can process information at quantities and speeds that computing technology can barely touch.Key to the brain's success is the neuron's efficiency in serving as both a processor and memory device, in contrast to the physically separated units in most modern computing devices.There have been many attempts to make computing more brain-like, but a new effort takes it all a step further – by integrating…

“It was pretty amazing how well the experimental data and numerical simulation matched,” Eckert said. In fact, it matched so closely that Carenza’s first response was that it must be wrong. The team jokingly worried that a peer reviewer might think they’d cheated. “It really was that beautiful,” Carenza said.The observations answer a “long-standing question about the type of order present in tissues,” said Joshua Shaevitz, a physicist at Princeton University who reviewed the paper (and did not think they’d cheated).…

Dropping an ice crystal into a bottle of near-frozen water produces a dramatic effect: very quickly, the liquid crystallizes into a block of ice.At the molecular level, an ice crystal has a distinct shape—a lattice structure. As incoming water molecules reshape to join the lattice, the crystal grows.Some researchers think an analogous process underlies Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and other neurodegenerative illnesses. According to this theory, these diseases begin when a particular protein misfolds, or fails…

By Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG) November 24, 2023Scientists have developed an innovative algorithm to solve equations of active matter theory, providing insights into how biological materials like cells and tissues attain their shape. This algorithm, part of a decade-long research effort, is implemented in an open-source supercomputer code, making it widely accessible. It marks a significant advance in understanding the behavior of living materials and could lead to the development…