January 2018
In January, Geoffrey Hinton explained what, in his opinion, is wrong with convolutional neural nets. Scientists cloned a monkey. The hypothesis that Alzheimer is Type 3 Diabetes was discussed. A non-aging mammal was discovered.
Machine Learning, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
- Deep learning technology is now being used to put Nic Cage in every movie
- For AI to Get Creative, It Must Learn the Rules—Then How to Break ‘Em
- Google CEO – AI will be bigger than electricity or fire
- Artificial Intelligence Writes a Piece in the Style of Bach
- The Future Computed: Artificial Intelligence and its role in society
- Machines Teaching Each Other Could Be the Biggest Exponential Trend in AI
- Microsoft’s New AI Artist Bot Can Draw Any Picture Based On Your Description
- Geoffrey Hinton talk "What is wrong with convolutional neural nets?"
- Microsoft Details Tech To Control A PC Using Just Your Mind
- This Neural Network Built by Japanese Researchers Can ‘Read Minds’
- Why Machine Learning Needs GPUs
- Google and Others Are Building AI Systems That Doubt Themselves
- Humans Will Be Marrying Robots By 2050 Says AI Expert
- 7 Artificial Intelligence Trends that will Rule 2018
Quantum Computing and Other Non-Standard Approaches to Computing
- Job One for Quantum Computers: Boost Artificial Intelligence
- IBM's quantum computer could change the game, and not just because you can play Battleship on it
- Intel Reveals Its New 49-Qubit Superconducting Quantum Chip at CES 2018
Molecular Biology, Genetics, Gene Therapy and Regenerative Medicine
- Researchers Cure Lung Fibrosis in Mice With a Single Gene Therapy
- Stabilization of Reversed Replication Forks by Telomerase Drives Telomere Catastrophe
- Designer Babies and the New Technology of Having Children
- Chinese Scientists Just Cloned a Monkey - Here Are the Details
- Scientists Just Cloned Monkeys. Humans Could Be Next.
- Monkeys Have Been Cloned, Paving the Way for Human Cloning
- Accelerating the production of stem cells through automation: "A giant leap in regenerative medicine"
- Why Gene Silencing Could Launch a New Class of Blockbuster Drugs
- Microsoft Wants to Use Artificial Intelligence to Make CRISPR More Accurate
- Why CRISPR Might not Work
- AI Can Warn Researchers Where CRISPR Might Make a Mistake
- CRISPR Patent Wars: How to Claim a Cure
- New Research Suggests Immunity to CRISPR Gene Editing Poses a Challenge
- Gene Therapy Temporarily Reverses Type 1 Diabetes in Mice
- Gene Therapy Had a Breakthrough 2017 - 2018 May Be Even Better
- Identification of Pre-Existing Adaptive Immunity to Cas9 Proteins in Humans
- 3D Printed Blood Vessels Offer New Possibilities for Testing Drugs
- Scientists unlock the secrets of nanoscale 3D printing
Neuroscience and Brain Research
- New study reveals why some people are more creative than others
- ‘Dark matter’ DNA influences brain development
- Neuroscientists find differences in brain activity depending on whether people are outdoors or in a lab
- Faster and More Efficient Synthetic Synapse Developed by Researchers
- A new artificial synapse is faster and more efficient than ones in your brain
- Artificial neurons compute faster than the human brain
- NIST’s Superconducting Synapse May Be Missing Piece for ‘Artificial Brains’
- MIT Engineers Have Designed a Chip That Behaves Just Like Brain Cell Connections
- Here’s the Tech That Could One Day Track, Boost, or Erase Human Memory
- Curcumin improves memory and mood, study says
- If you have a cold nose, a new study says your brain is working too hard and diverting blood
- Scientists developed a monoclonal antibody-based treatment for Alzheimer’s disease
- Neuromorphic Chip That Simulates Brain Activity Developed by Researchers
- Artificial synapse for “brain-on-a-chip” hardware
- How does the brain work? Minds of creative people show unexpected neurological connections
- Alzheimer's Disease Is Type 3 Diabetes - Evidence Reviewed
- Prebiotics in Infant Formula May Improve Memory, Learning and Alter Brain Function
- Neurons Use Virus-Like Proteins to Transmit Information
- Mini Human Brains Have Been Implanted Into the Brains of Rodents
- A Giant Neuron Has Been Found Wrapped Around The Entire Circumference of The Brain
- Researchers shed light on why exercise slows progression of Parkinson's disease
Psychiatry and Mental Health
Immunity and Infectious Diseases
- Autoimmunity and primary immunodeficiency: two sides of the same coin?
- Scientists Think They've Found a Way to Stop Allergic Reactions Before They Happen
- Researchers found how gene mutation triggers immune disease
- Researchers Discover 10 New Immune Systems in Bacteria
- Immune system: The “seventh sense”
- NK Cell Therapy Advances, Enabled by Precision Models
- Blood-vessel-on-a-chip provides insight into new anti-inflammatory drug candidate
- Fast food makes the immune system more aggressive in the long term
- These disease-fighting bacteria produce echoes detectable by ultrasound
- Newly discovered HIV drug suppresses virus in humanized mice
Endocrinology and Hormones
- Androstadienone, a Chemosignal Found in Human Sweat, Increases Individualistic Behavior
- How to Supercharge Your Dopamine Levels Naturally and Never Feel Depressed or Anxious Again
Oncology and Cancer
- Redesigning an Adenovirus for Cancer Therapy
- New discovery helps build a better target for anticancer drug discovery
- Scientists developed a wireless light switch for targeted cancer therapy
- High-Cholesterol Diets Can Speed Up Tumour Growth 100-Fold, Scientists Say
- Liquid Biopsy Test May Help Screen Eight Types of Cancer
- U.S. Doctors Plan to Treat Cancer Patients Using CRISPR
- Biologists’ new peptide could fight many cancers
- Krebs ist eine Stoffwechselentgleisung, sagte Otto Warburg bereits 1924
- Natural Killer Cells Swarm to Attack Cancer Thanks to New Immunotherapy
- Biotech’s Coming Cancer Cure
- Computational Modeling of Pancreatic Cancer Reveals Kinetics of Metastasis Suggesting Optimum Treatment Strategies
- Successful Therapy Must Eradicate Cancer Stem Cells
Longevity and Aging
- Google’s Calico Labs announces discovery of a “non-aging mammal.”
- Life Extension: The Modern Anti-Aging Movement
- Naked mole-rat mortality rates defy Gompertzian laws by not increasing with age
- Could Filtering Our Aged Blood Keep us Young?
- Proteostasis and How Misfolded Proteins Cause Age-related Diseases
- Zeb2-NAT Molecule May Reverse Cellular Aging
- Population-specific deep biomarkers of aging
- The Link Between Cellular Senescence and Cellular Reprogramming
- Understanding Why the Thymus Shrinks With Age
Nutrition and Metabolism
Miscellaneous
February 2018
In February, CRISP was used to treat Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. Schizophrenia was hypothesized to be a side effect of human development. Ants were hypothesized to be a source of novel antibiotics. Cancer research was done using virtual cells.
Machine Learning, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
- Mind-Reading AI Tech That Recreates Images of Faces is now Here
- AI experts list the real dangers of artificial intelligence
- Should an artificial general intelligence be created?
- A Neural Network Generates Surprisingly Elegant Images of Dinosaurs Composed of Plants
- Tech companies should stop pretending AI won’t destroy jobs
- AlphaZero just wants to play!
- Tech Is Becoming Emotionally Intelligent, and It’s Big Business
- 'Memtransistor' brings world closer to brain-like computing
- Facebook is using A.I. to help predict when users may be suicidal
- Good News: A.I. Is Getting Cheaper. That’s Also Bad News
- Deep learning for biology
- Why even a moth’s brain is smarter than an AI
- The Democratization of AI Is Putting Powerful Tools in the Hands of Non-Experts
- This is the AI debate that we need to have
- Japan has just invented Robo-bees that can legitimately pollinate the earth
- Artificial Intelligence Trends To Watch In 2018
- Look out, Wiki-geeks. Now Google trains AI to write Wikipedia articles
- DeepMind’s latest AI transfers its learning to new tasks
- The “Father of Artificial Intelligence” Says Singularity Is 30 Years Away
- The End of Human Doctors
- AI in drug discovery is overhyped: examples from AstraZeneca, Harvard, Stanford (medium.com)
- A.I. will be 'billions of times' smarter than humans and man needs to merge with it, expert says
- 12 Amazing Deep Learning Breakthroughs of 2017
- A Quantum Algorithm Could Help Us Bring AI to Life
Quantum Computing and Other Non-Standard Approaches to Computing
- The Argument Against Quantum Computers
- Serious quantum computers are finally here. What are we going to do with them?
- New quantum memory stores information for hours
- Unconventional superconductor may be used to create quantum computers of the future
- Grundlage für Quantencomputer vereinfacht
Molecular Biology, Genetics, Gene Therapy and Regenerative Medicine
- More than a half-dozen teams are pursuing genetic therapies for sickle cell
- New CRISPR Method Takes on Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
- Solve Genomics With The Blockchain?
- Pioneering new research offers new insight into workings of building blocks of life
- New Algorithm Can Pinpoint Mutations Favored by Natural Selection in Large Sections of the Human Genome
- New software helps detect adaptive genetic mutations
- New CRISPR Method Takes on Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
- Further Investigation of the Role of Osteopontin in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Aging
- Fifteen New Genes Identified that Shape the Face
- Masters of Our DNA: Designer Bodies Are Not Science Fiction
- CRISPR Isn't Just for Gene Editing Anymore
- CRISPR could enable quick, reliable medical tests
- CRISPR-Cas9 Corrects Mutations in Muscular Dystrophy Patients' Cells
- China announces world's first lung regenerative therapy
- IBM’s New AI Can Predict Psychosis in Your Speech
Neuroscience and Brain Research
- Detecting brain region that alleviates pain could lead to better opioid alternatives
- Machine Theory of Mind
- Do you see what I see? Researchers harness brain waves to reconstruct images of what we perceive
- How brain scans can read your mind to reconstruct the face you're thinking of
- New neurons in the adult brain are involved in sensory learning
- Scientists Explore Ties Between Alzheimer's And Brain's Ancient Immune System
- UCI cracks code to restoring memory creation in older or damaged brains
- Brain stimulation reverses the effects of fast music on learning
- Mitochondrially Targeted Antioxidant SS-31 Improves Cognitive Function in Old Mice
- Researchers Successfully Reverse Alzheimer’s Disease: Mouse Study
- New Study Reveals That Forgetfulness May Actually Be A Sign Of Superior Intelligence
Psychiatry and Mental Health
- Four Types of Mental Illness That Can Be Predicted in Childhood
- Schizophrenia a side effect of human development
- Intense magnetic stimulation could reduce severe depression, new study shows
- What if I told you that the cause of depression may be hidden in your gut and not your brain?
Immunity and Infectious Diseases
- Ten Ways You’re Unknowingly Sabotaging Your Immune System
- Challenges in RNA virus bioinformatics
- Ants As A Source of Novel Antibiotics?
- Study Finds that Fasting for 72 Hours Can Regenerate the Entire Immune System
- Antibiotics consumption in India pose a global threat to antibiotic resistance control
Endocrinology and Hormones
Oncology and Cancer
- Tumors Eradicated by Immune-stimulating Agents
- Tumor Organoids Predict How Well Patients Respond to Cancer Drugs
- Cancer Vaccines May Overhaul Cancer Therapy in the Next Decade
- Symmetry and symmetry breaking in cancer: a foundational approach to the cancer problem
- Virtual cells provide new cancer insights
- Synthetic cell produces anti-cancer drugs within a tumor
- Have scientists found an anti-cancer vaccine?
- Fighting Cancer with Artificial Intelligence
- Cancer-Killing Virus Acts by Alerting Immune System
- Robots Smaller Than a Human Hair Can Starve and Shrink Cancerous Tumors
- Cancer Vaccine Developed by Researchers Passes Mice Trial
- Cancer ‘vaccine’ eliminates tumors in mice
Longevity and Aging
- Craig Venter Wants to Tackle the Ultimate Disease: Ageing
- Drink alcohol for a longer life, say scientists, just not too much
- Study Shows How Dancing Can Reverse Signs Of Aging In The Brain
- With Quantum Suicide, You'd Go On Living Forever
- Could your thoughts make you age faster?
- Ageing is a regulated process in which hormones have pivotal roles
- A Review of Immunosenescence
- Growing old, yet staying young: The role of telomeres in bats’ exceptional longevity
Nutrition and Metabolism
- How Much Salt Do You Need to Survive?
- Genetic study suggests humans may be evolving in a way that prevents alcoholism
- Research reveals the "profound effect" Ketogenic diets have on human health
- Consuming Energy Drinks Every Day Can Cause Hepatitis
- How oxygen gave rise to eukaryotic sex
Miscellaneous
March 2018
In March, a robotic fish was built. The question was asked whether human beings are quantum computers. Evidence was gathered that Parkinson's disease starts in the gut, not in the brain.
Machine Learning, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
- The robots are coming - for as many as 800 million jobs
- Chemical Synthesis with Artificial Intelligence: Researchers develop new computer method
- AI Tool, Which Has Digested Nearly Every Reaction Ever Performed, Can Invent New Ways To Create Complex Molecules
- Artificial intelligence is going to completely change your life
- Every single Machine Learning course on the internet, ranked by your reviews
- This Robot Knows How to Trick You
- Überwachung am Arbeitsplatz: Die KI als allwissender Boss
- The Russian Robot That’s Hiring Humans
- Facial Recognition Technology Can Now Text Jaywalkers A Fine
- This AI Designs Interfaces
- The Real Story Behind Microsoft’s Quietly Brilliant AI Design
- AI is rapidly changing the types and location of the best-paying jobs
- Need to make a molecule? Ask this AI for instructions
- The Value of Networking for AI-Focused Business Leaders
- Who Should Self-Driving Cars Kill?
- China Uses AI, Facial Recognition, and Shame for Law Enforcement
- Why This Auris Health Robot Won’t Replace Human Surgeons
- Forschern gelingt nächster Schritt zu "Mensch auf Computerchip"
- Machine Learning Misconceptions – Infographic from our Expert Consensus
- How Investors Feel About Artificial Intelligence – from 29 AI Founders and Executives
- AI Founders and Executives Predict 5-Year Trends on Consumer Tech
- Risks of AI – What Researchers Think is Worth Worrying About
- Where to Apply Machine Learning First in Your Business: Expert Consensus
- Oxford’s Prof Nick Bostrom On AI and Existential Risk in the 21st Century
- Facebook Artificial Intelligence and the Challenge of Personalization
- Kommentar: Erzählt uns nicht, KI würde keine Arbeitsplätze zerstören
- Construction companies are welcoming their new robot workers
- Can one contribute to deep learning without learning the entire field?
- AI in Life Sciences Trends and Terms that Executives Need to Know
- Comparing human learning with the best RL algorithms
- New Robotic Fish Could Change How Researchers Study Sea Life
- MIT's Soft Robotic Fish Explores Reefs in Fiji
- Groundbreaking research results in artificial intelligence (AI)
- This Google AI created a ‘child’ AI to help it solve problems
- Deep Learning for Time Series Prediction in Epidemiology
- Using Tensorflow Object Detection to do Pixel Wise Classification
- AI and Deep Learning in 2017 - A Year in Review
- DeepMind boffins brain-damage AI to find out what makes it tick
- IBM claims its machine learning library is 46x faster than TensorFlow
- The Wild New Materials of the Future Will Be Discovered With AI
- Soft robotic fish swims alongside real ones in coral reefs
- Four-in-one 3D printer paves way for custom-made robots and phones
- Google lends its machine-learning tool to fight deforestation
- Artificial intelligence is the latest competition for real estate agents
- The US military wants AI to dream up weird new helicopters
- AI could alleviate China’s doctor shortage
- DARPA wants to connect human brains and machines
- Smartphones Will Get Even Smarter With On-Device Machine Learning
- Elon Musk: ‘Mark my words — A.I. is far more dangerous than nukes’
- Uber Halts Self-Driving car Program After a Fatal Crash Kills Pedestrian
- Self-Driving Uber Car Kills Pedestrian in Arizona, Where Robots Roam
- Is Machine Learning just glorified "curve fitting"?
- AI can spot signs of Alzheimer’s before your family does
- AI 101: Why AI is the Next Revolution - or Doomsday
- Top 5 Jobs to be replaced by Artificial Intelligence (Starting from 2017)
- The first AI disruption in medicine might not be radiology
- Microsoft-Umfrage: Künstliche Intelligenz bietet enormes Potenzial für Menschen mit Behinderung
Quantum Computing and Other Non-Standard Approaches to Computing
Molecular Biology, Genetics, Gene Therapy and Regenerative Medicine
- Protein Engineering May Be the Future of Science
- Programming protein switches through DNA strand displacement
- CRISPR paper that sent stocks tumbling is retracted
- Stem cell paper falsification leads to firing; Nobelist also penalized
- Scientists are one step closer to diagnose genetic mutations
- Up to 40 percent of DNA results from consumer genetic tests might be bogus
- 3-DIY: Printing your own bioprinter
- Keeping the genetic code clean
- Gene network analysis identifies a central post-transcriptional regulator of cellular stress survival
- Interconnected Microphysiological Systems for Quantitative Biology and Pharmacology Studies
- Scientists Have Found That Intelligence Is Passed From Mothers, Not From Fathers
- Scientists Make a Protein Mat That can Soak up Chemical Pollution
- Mapping the operational landscape of microRNAs in synthetic gene circuits
- This new company wants to sequence your genome and let you share it on a blockchain
- How human embryonic stem cells sparked a revolution
- Scientists Discover There Are 42 Million Proteins in a Cell at Any Given Time
- FDA signals support for new approaches to decentralized manufacturing in regenerative medicine
- Artificial and biological cells work together as mini chemical factories
- A blueprint for regeneration
- The World’s First Bionic Kidney Is All Set To Replace Dialysis in Just Two Years
- In the future we won’t edit genomes - we’ll just print out new ones
- DNA tests can predict intelligence, scientists show for first time
- We need to talk about human genetic engineering before it's too late
Neuroscience and Brain Research
- The brain learns completely differently than we’ve assumed, new learning theory says
- How you talk to your child changes their brain
- The shape of your brain influences your political opinions
- Prosthetic memory system successful in humans
- Bee Swarms Work Like Giant Brains, Where Each Bee Is a Nerve Cell
- Neuroscientists say daily ibuprofen can prevent Alzheimer's disease
- Antibody removes Alzheimer’s plaques, in mice
- Many Children With Autism and Their Siblings Aren't Getting Vaccinated
- Forscher ergründen mysteriöse Traum-Déjà-vus
- Neuroscientists Explore How Mothering Affects Brain Development - at the DNA Level
- How Do We Lose Memory? A STEP at a Time
- Women have more active brains than men, according to science
- We Just Got More New Evidence That Parkinson's Starts in The Gut - Not The Brain
- Stress in Your Early Childhood Could Actually Make The Brain's DNA Remap Itself
- A New Wearable Brain Scanner
- Amygdala neurons increase as children become adults - except in autism
- Spinal Cord Injury: Is the vagus nerve our neural connectome?
- Neuromuscular Disease: Protecting the nerve terminals
- Elon Musk Has Started Up A Brain Electrode Company Called Neuralink
- Clearing clumps of protein in aging neural stem cells boosts their activity
- Autism's social deficits are reversed by an anti-cancer drug
- Human Brain Recognizes Prosthetic Limbs as Real Limbs
- Scientists Surprised to Find No Two Neurons Are Genetically Alike
- Researchers Discover the Brain is Strobing, Not Constant
- New Research Suggests Social Issues are Down to Neurotypicals more than Autistics
Psychiatry and Mental Health
- Psychotherapeuten votieren gegen Möglichkeit, Psychopharmaka zu verordnen
- Bristol-Myers and Otsuka to face first trial over claims an antipsychotic pill caused compulsive behavior
Immunity and Infectious Diseases
- Researchers Might Have Figured Out Why Bacteria Only Causes Acne in Some People
- Bacteria in your intestines can trigger autoimmune diseases
- Molecular mechanism of extreme mechanostability in a pathogen adhesin
- It's Official: A British Man Has Contracted The First Case of Untreatable 'Super-Gonorrhea'
- Neuer Wirkstoff gegen resistente Keime
- Manuka Honey Kills Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs, is Most Effective Antibiotic Known on Earth
- Increase in Global Antibiotics Consumption Driven by Income Gains
- Tuberculous Meningitis: Can aspirin help?
- A randomised double blind placebo controlled phase 2 trial of adjunctive aspirin for tuberculous meningitis in HIV-uninfected adults
- Global increase and geographic convergence in antibiotic consumption between 2000 and 2015
- The Purpose of Diarrhoea Is Way More Complicated And Important Than We'd Like
- Bakterien aus dem Badeentchen
- Gut microbiome may make chemo drug toxic to patients
- This Hungry Bacteria Could Help Clean Up Heavy Metals And Greenhouse Gases
- A Pond-Dwelling Virus Just Cured a Man’s Antibiotic-Resistant Infection
- Scientists create world's first synthetic, non-biologic vaccine
- Incomplete inhibition of HIV infection results in more HIV infected lymph node cells by reducing cell death
- Many Non-Antibiotic Drugs Affect Gut Bacteria
- We Might Have Finally Found The Trigger For Autoimmune Diseases
- CRISPR-based herd immunity can limit phage epidemics in bacterial populations
- Synthetic Biology Breakthrough Means Bacteria Could Produce Our Essential Drugs
- These Bacteria Eat Toxic Metal, 'Poop' Gold Nuggets
- A commensal strain of Staphylococcus epidermidis protects against skin neoplasia
Endocrinology and Hormones
- SGLT2 inhibitor-induced euglycaemic diabetic ketoacidosis
- Orbital radiotherapy should not be used to treat thyroid eye disease
- How to Supercharge Your Dopamine Levels Naturally
- Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Might Start in The Brain, Not The Ovaries
- First patient in Diabetes trial is now Diabetes-free
- Type 2 Diabetes Was Misdiagnosed All Along, It Could Actually Be Several Diseases
Oncology and Cancer
- Two Studies Find 'Clear Evidence' That Cellphone Radiation Causes Cancer In Rats
- Scientists Discover a Tiny Stomach Hidden Inside Lung Tumours, Because Cancer Is Changing
- Scientists build army of metal-organic nanoflowers to treat cancer
- “Groundbreaking” New Cancer Vaccine Will now Undergo Human Trials
- A Cancer 'Vaccine' Cured 97% of Tumors in Mice. What's That Mean for People?
- Elephants Are Strangely Resistant to Cancer - And We May Finally Know Why
- New therapy cures cancer with just one injection
- Reprogramming of primary human Philadelphia chromosome-positive B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia cells into nonleukemic macrophages
- DNA methylation reprogramming of human cancer cells by expression of a plant 5-methylcytosine DNA glycosylase
- Nanobots kill off cancerous tumours as fiction becomes reality
- A DNA nanorobot functions as a cancer therapeutic in response to a molecular trigger in vivo
Longevity and Aging
- Which is the right anti-aging molecule for you?
- Mice lacking the mitochondrial exonuclease MGME1 accumulate mtDNA deletions without developing progeria
- This Anti-Aging Injection Might Actually Work
- Reduced-calorie diet shows signs of slowing ageing in people
- NMN and NAD Reverse Aging of Blood Vessels in New Study
- Scientists Reverse Vascular Aging
- Will Increased Lifespans be Boring?
Nutrition and Metabolism
- Study Says Drinking Alcohol Is Better Than Exercise For Living A Longer Life
- Coffee Requires Cancer Warning, California Judge Rules
- Optimise the microbial flora with milk and yoghurt to prevent disease
- Stem cell treatment drastically reduces drinking in alcoholic rats
- A professor of medicine explains why eating fat won't make you fat - but sugar will
- Tooth Sensor Measures Intake of Sugar, Salt, Alcohol
- Vitamin D could be much more important to your health than you think
- A novel approach to lowering high triglycerides
- Ist Palmöl krebserregend?
- Brainless Embryos Suggest Bioelectricity Guides Growth
- Mediziner widerlegen Körperfett-Mythos
- Would You Eat Human Meat Grown in a Lab?
- A near-universal technique to measure enzyme inhibition
- Fettzellen heilen Wunden
- Nut consumption may aid colon cancer survival
Miscellaneous
- India is considering a hyperloop to connect some of its biggest cities
- Polymer thermal conductor: turning plastic insulator into conductor
- Here Are The Most Astounding Science Facts We've Learnt in 2018 So Far
- Does Anyone Read Medical Journals Anymore?
- There's Mounting Evidence The African Continent Is Splitting in Two
- Transhumanism: advances in technology could already put evolution into hyperdrive – but should they?
- Chinese Citizens With Bad 'Social Credit' to Be Blocked From Taking Planes and Trains
- Over 2000 years of economic history, in one chart
- 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2018
- 21 Time-Consuming Problems from the 80s that no longer exist
- China schafft digitales Punktesystem für den "besseren" Menschen
April 2018
In April, Andrew Ng started publishing his book "Machine Learning Yearning". An entire music album was to be stored on DNA. A new DNA shape was found. Optical communication channels in the brain were hypothesized.
Machine Learning, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
- Is it just me that current approach to AI will soon hit another wall?
- Intelligent AI: why London is the global capital of machine learning
- DeepCode cleans your code with the power of AI
- Rice University AI Bayou Uses Deep Learning to Write Code
- BMW's self-driving cars get their lasers
- New A.I. application can write its own code
- YouTube Basically Admits Algorithms Aren't Such Good Babysitters After All
- Chinese AI is half as good as U.S. capability, report says
- This startup hopes to keep barf bags out of self-driving cars
- China Fund Raises $500 Million to Snap Up Cheaper AI Startups
- Facebook Is Preparing To Build Its Own AI Chips
- This Startup Is Training AI to Gobble Up the News and Rewrite It Free of Bias
- Scientists plan huge European AI hub to compete with US
- How technology and artificial intelligence can improve regulation
- CIA plans to replace spies with AI
- The CIA Will use AI Spies in Future Espionage Missions
- This Startup Is Training AI to Gobble Up the News and Rewrite It Free of Bias
- Paired with a Good Algorithm, a Smartphone Camera Might Detect Heart Disease
- AI is discovering new alloys faster than humans ever could
- Five questions about the "Westworld" robots from an AI writer
- Grasshopper: Neue Google-App lehrt Programmieren
- How Fast Is AI Progressing? Stanford’s New Report Card for Artificial Intelligence
- Alibaba is developing its own AI chips, too
- China's largest smartphone maker is working on an A.I. that can read human emotions
- Beware! Medical AI systems are easy targets for fraud and error
- McKinsey’s latest AI research predicts it could create trillions worth of value ... someday
- Machine-learning system processes sounds like humans do
- The Quest to Teach AI to Write Pop Songs
- Artificial intelligence can scour code to find accidentally public passwords
- Artificial Intelligence - The Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet
- Alphabet’s Eric Schmidt says Silicon Valley will need ‘AI principles’ before working with US military
- With this tool, AI could identify new malware as readily as it recognizes cats
- Artificial Intelligence to Expedite the Process of Discovering Metallic Glass
- Google's new tool answers your questions by reading thousands of books
- Machine Learning’s ‘Amazing’ Ability to Predict Chaos
- One machine to rule them all: A ‘Master Algorithm’ may emerge sooner than you think
- Google's New AI Head is so smart he doesn't need AI
- A new way to automatically build road maps from aerial images
- You Can Learn About AI and Deep Learning with This Extensive eBook Bundle
- US army boffins use AI to spot faces in the dark
- Microsoft has given up 'significant sales' over concerns that the customer will use AI for evil, says a top scientist
- Alibaba is developing its own driverless cars
- U.K. Facial Recognition Startup May Help Brexit’s Irish Border Problem
- The Lebowski Theorem of machine superintelligence
- Alice In Putin’s Wonderland: How Russia’s AI Assistant Compares To Siri And Alexa
- Alexa Is a Revelation for the Blind
- UK lawmakers want to bring good old British decorum to the AI industry
- Google’s latest AI experiments let you talk to books and test word association skills
- Aether is developing a from-CT scan organ 3D printing AI system
- Regulate artificial intelligence to avert cyber arms race
- The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Innovation
- Facebook facial recognition faces class-action suit
- Europeans are arguing over whether robots should have rights
- Why AutoML Is Set To Become The Future Of Artificial Intelligence
- What is ‘Disruptive Diagnostics’ and How is it Changing Health Care?
- Facebook is using AI to predict users’ future behavior and selling that data to advertisers
- Robots have been taking our jobs for 50 years, so why are we worried?
- China’s new autonomous-vehicle rules let any of its cities test robo-cars
- Watch artificial intelligence create a 3D model of a person—from just a few seconds of video
- This new lidar sensor could equip every autonomous car in the world by the end of 2018
- Deep Learning: A Superhuman Way to Look at Cells
- FDA approves AI-powered diagnostic that doesn’t need a doctor’s help
- Three problems with Facebook’s plan to kill hate speech using AI
- This AI thinks like a dog
- New Target for China’s Censors: Content Driven by Artificial Intelligence
- AI companies spot a business opportunity in space
- Mark Zuckerberg just gave a timeline for AI to take over detecting internet hate speech
- Forget Cars, Mitsubishi Hitachi Sees Autonomous Power Plants
- Sony’s new robot dog Aibo barks, does tricks and charms animal lovers
- The Never-Ending Self-Driving Car Project
- The US military desperately wants to weaponize AI
- The First 'Killer Robot' Was Around Back in 1979
- Children shouldn't learn to code. Ultimately, machines will be better
- TAL Education uses artificial intelligence to improve online tutoring as it eyes new markets
- California may soon allow passengers in driverless cars
- Could artificial intelligence get depressed and have hallucinations?
- The world’s most valuable AI startup is ... yep, Chinese
- Elon Musk says humans could end up ruled by an immortal AI dictator
- A New AI That Detects “Deception” May Bring an End to Lying as We Know It
- Mitsubishi Tests AI Engineer for Thermal Power Plants
- Studie: Roboter bedrohen Jobs in Deutschland stärker als in anderen Industrienationen
- Elon Musk Just Issued a Nightmarish Warning About What Will Really Happen if AI Takes Over
- Why AI isn’t going to solve Facebook’s fake news problem
- A Startup Media Site Says AI Can Take Bias Out of News
- OpenAI challenges you to beat 1990s classic Sonic the Hedgehog using machine learning
- Comet.ml wants to do for machine learning what GitHub did for code
- When Will Alexa Know Everything?
- Google turns to users to improve its AI chops outside the US
- Aiming to fill skill gaps in AI, Microsoft makes training courses available to the public
- Roboter schaffen mehr Jobs, als sie vernichten
- Why we have the ethics of self-driving cars all wrong
- We can train AI to identify good and evil, and then use it to teach us morality
- Machine Learning Yearning
- Can Macron relaunch Artificial Intelligence in France?
- In AI, Russia Is Hustling to Catch Up
- How artificial intelligence and data add value to businesses
- China has a new plan to create an army of AI researchers
- Building Image Classification Models Based on Pre-Trained Neural Networks
- A neural network that keeps seeing art where we see mundane objects
- Artificial Intelligence Could Soon Enhance Real-Time Police Surveillance
- AI Experts Are Boycotting a Top University Over Research on Killer Robots
- The High-Definition, Artificially Intelligent, All-Seeing Future of Big Data Policing
- Chinese self-driving truck start-up to roll out unmanned port logistics services in second half of 2018
- A Chinese hospital is betting big on artificial intelligence to treat patients
- ‘Cow Fitbits’ and artificial intelligence are coming to the dairy farm
- Microsoft touts breakthrough in making chatbots more conversational
- Emmanuel Macron talks to Wired about France's AI Strategy
- When Computers Decide: Recommendations on Machine-Learned Automated Decision Making
- Trusting Artificial Intelligence
- Not Everything Needs Copyright: Lawyers Flip Out That Photos Taken By AI May Be Public Domain
- Dungeons and Dragons, not chess and Go: why AI needs roleplay
- Aiming to fill skill gaps in AI, Microsoft makes training courses available to the public
- Military documents reveal how the US Army plans to deploy AI in future wars
- Noodle on this: Machine learning that can identify ramen by shop
- How Not to Order Water from a Robot Waiter
- How Applied Artificial Intelligence is Changing Society, Enterprise, and People
- Is Artificial Intelligence for Small Business? Factors to Consider for Technology Adoption
- Machine Behavior Needs to Be an Academic Discipline
- Tesla Says Autopilot Was On Before Fatal Model X Crash, But That Driver Didn’t Abide Warnings
- For a meaningful Artificial Intelligence
- France, Germany under fire for failing to back ‘killer robots’ ban
- How a Machine That Can Make Anything Would Change Everything
- An algorithm wrote a new Harry Potter chapter
- China wants to make the chips that will add AI to any gadget
- Unpacking the AI-Productivity Paradox
- DARPA wants new ideas for autonomous drone swarms
- Inside the Chinese lab that plans to rewire the world with AI
- President of France Emmanuel Macron Talks About Nation's New AI Strategy
- Non-Tech Businesses Are Beginning To Use AI at Scale
- Uber settled with the family of its autonomous-car crash victim
- Seven steps to master Machine Learning with python
- Robot takes cues from spider that can walk and roll
- Fever-Detecting Pacifier Wins IEEE Maker Project Contest
- Google's AI Has Learned to Become "Highly Aggressive" in Stressful Situations
- The malicious uses of AI: Why it's urgent to prepare now
- AI can invent new ways to create complex molecules
- Why self-driving cars must become the ultimate defensive drivers
- China hopes to build the chips that will control millions of driverless cars
- Microsoft is launching a huge reorganization to focus on AI and the cloud
- The Wired Brain: How not to talk about an AI-powered future
- Deep Learning Book Notes: Numerical Computation Part 1
- Structured Deep Learning
- Why robots could replace teachers as soon as 2027
- Blockchain will make AI smarter by feeding it better data
- Google’s TensorFlow AI framework adds Swift and JavaScript support
- Is It Illegal to Trick a Robot?
- Neuroevolution — evolving Artificial Neural Networks topology from the scratch
- What will our society look like when Artificial Intelligence is everywhere?
Quantum Computing and Other Non-Standard Approaches to Computing
- Quantum Recap for April 2018
- Serious quantum computers are finally here. What are we going to do with them?
- America Just Can’t Match China’s Exploding Supercomputing Power
- Entire music album to be stored on DNA
- Microsoft has designed an Arm Linux IoT cloud chip. Repeat, an Arm Linux IoT cloud chip
- OLPC's $100 Laptop was going to change the world - Then It All Went Wrong
- Scientists brings photonic communication to computer chips
Molecular Biology, Genetics, Gene Therapy and Regenerative Medicine
- Prosthetic arm With Strong Sensory Feedback Developed by Researchers
- Miracle cures or modern quackery? Stem cell clinics multiply
- CRISPR/Cas9 Silences Gene Associated with High Cholesterol Levels Through Epigenetic Regulation
- Huge haul of ‘depression genes’ shows it’s a complex condition
- Helix no more. Researchers find a new DNA shape
- Incredibly detailed embryo maps chart each cell’s developmental fate
- Coordination of robust single cell rhythms in the Arabidopsis circadian clock via spatial waves of gene expression
- Singapore bets big on synthetic biology
- BREAKING: Scientists Have Confirmed a New DNA Structure Inside Human Cells
- A Mysterious New Form of DNA Was Just Discovered in Human Cells
- Free energy simulations reveal molecular mechanism for functional switch of a DNA helicase
- ‘Warm transplants’ save livers and lives
- Scientists Find DNA Clues That Show How Humans Are Evolving Right Now
- New Study Will Bring Gene-Editing Technology Closer to Medical Reality
- Scientists succeed in cultivating cartilage from stem cells
- DNA methylation plays key role in stem cell differentiation
- Pet cloning is bringing human cloning a little bit closer
- Gene Editing for Good
- DNA clues to our inner neanderthal
- How CRISPR works, explained in two minutes
- The Y chromosome is disappearing. What does it mean for men?
- How Genes Shape Behavior
- Stem cell-based retinal implant tested for common cause of vision loss
- Changes in housekeeping functions drive stem cell differentiation
- Doctors Are Becoming DNA Detectives to Diagnose Super-Rare Diseases
- Genetic test may improve post-stent treatment, reports
- CRISPR may not cause hundreds of rogue mutations after all
- Estonia to give genetic testing and advice to 100,000 residents
- DNA tests for IQ are coming, but it might not be smart to take one
- China Is Engineering Genius Babies
- CRISPR ‘gone wild’ has made stocks swoon, but studies show how to limit off-target editing
- Proposal for Chimeric Gene Therapy
- Some People Are Their Own Identical Twins, And The Science Behind That Is Fascinating
- The ethics issue: Should we edit our children’s genomes?
- CRISPR could enable quick, reliable medical tests
- How 3D printing is transforming healthcare
- The genetic difference between men and women could be greater than we thought
- Scientists find different cell types contain the same enzyme ratios
Neuroscience and Brain Research
- New Brain PET Scanner Shows Promise for Earlier and Less Expensive Diagnosis of Parkinson’s
- Tiny Lab-Grown 'Brains' Raise Big Ethical Questions
- Here's What Happens To Alcoholics’ Brains When They Quit Drinking
- Scientists May Have Found The Root Cause Of Autism
- Is ‘friendly fire’ in the brain provoking Alzheimer’s disease?
- Researchers are keeping pig brains alive outside the body
- The ethics of experimenting with human brain tissue
- Following a couple from diagnosis to the final stages of Alzheimer's
- International scientists have found autism's cause. What will Americans do?
- Are There Optical Communication Channels in Our Brains?
- What Do Blind People 'See' When They Take LSD?
- Scientists identified key factor in development of Parkinson’s disease
- Mathematical Beauty Activates Same Brain Region as Great Art or Music
- The Neuroscience of Genius, Creativity, and Improvisation, with Heather Berlin
- Researchers Neutralize A Gene In Human Brain Cells Associated With Alzheimer's
- Too Much Sitting May Shrink the Part of Your Brain Tied to Memory
- Scientists teach computers how to analyze brain cells
- A combined analysis of genetically correlated traits identifies 187 loci and a role for neurogenesis and myelination in intelligence
- Sleepless nights show ties to Alzheimer's risk
- PCOS link to ADHD and autism spectrum disorder, study
- Researchers Neutralize apoE4 Gene That Causes Alzheimer’s
- Abundant Neurogenesis Found in Adult Humans’ Hippocampi
- The Results Are Out In A Controversial Trial Using Young Blood To Treat Dementia
- Scientists Have Discovered a New Stem Cell That Could Heal Brain Damage
- Sleeping in stages could be good for your health
- Memory-boosting brain prosthesis shows impressive results in human trials
- Building three-dimensional human brain organoids
- Scientists Find Very Young Cells in Even Very Old Brains
- Beijing launches pioneering brain-science centre
- Human Hippocampal Neurogenesis Persists throughout Aging
- Aging people grow just as many new brain cells as young people, new study finds
- Revolutionary brain-mapping technique provides new blueprint for cortical connections
- Flexible Brain-Machine Interface
- 'Sleeping' stem cells could aid brain repair
- Old brains can still grow cells like young ones, study finds
- Older adults grow just as many new brain cells as young people: study
- Your Brain Could Still Be Growing Even in Adult Years, Says New Study
- DARPA-funded prosthetic memory system successful in humans, study finds
- Shared rhythmic subcortical GABAergic input to the entorhinal cortex and presubiculum
- New method allows scientists to watch brain cells interacting in real time
- ‘Game Changer’: Study Finds 100-year-old Drug Reverses Autism Symptoms in Kids
- Scientists Discover Biophotons In The Brain That Could Hint Our Consciousness is Directly Linked to Light
- Brain-Uploading Company Has No Immediate Plans to Upload Brains
- New Brain Maps With Unmatched Detail May Change Neuroscience
- Brain-stimulation trials get personal to lift depression
- Tiny, Lab-Grown Minibrains Sprout Blood Vessels
- Humans Used to Sleep in Two Shifts, And Maybe We Should Do It Again
- Birds Can See Earth's Magnetic Fields, And We Finally Know How That's Possible
- Philosophical Implications of New Thought-Imaging Technology
- Scientists Say They Have Developed A Memory-Restoring Prosthetic For The Human Brain
- Our brains sometimes create 'false memories'
- Not sleeping? You might be part of a genetic elite
- A Technique To Control Your Dreams Has Been Verified For The First Time
- How your next meal could help fight depression, stress
- A neuroscientist explains why reality may just be a hallucination
- Newly Trialed "Miracle" Treatment Could Change The Lives Of Those With MS
- Targeting immune cells to slow progression of ALS
Psychiatry and Mental Health
- There's a Link Between Cannabis And Psychosis, And We Can't Ignore It
- LSD ‘Microdosing’ Is Trending In Silicon Valley - But Can It Actually Make You More Creative?
- Could high IQ be responsible for psychiatric disorders?
- Brain-stimulation trials get personal to lift depression
- LSD Brings Your Brain to the Edge of Chaos
- 'Nature' Explores Why So Many Postgrads Have Bad Mental Health
Immunity and Infectious Diseases
- Spitalskeime: Fünfmal so viele Tote wie im Straßenverkehr
- Flu virus finally sequenced in its native form
- Computer-guided design of optimal microbial consortia for immune system modulation
- Scientists identified “smell” given off by malaria-infected children
- Immune Cells We Thought Were 'Useless' Are Actually a Weapon Against Infections Like HIV
- Epstein-Barr virus linked to seven serious diseases
- East Asia braces for surge in deadly tick-borne virus
- Viral rescue
- Bacteria can pass on memory to descendants, UCLA-led team discovers
- Bats Identified as Source of Pig-Killing Coronavirus in China
- New NanoZymes use light to kill bacteria
- Leading Scientist Warns There's An Apocalypse Coming, And It's Not The One You Expect
- Big Pharma Co. Has License Suspended As Vaccine Sterilizes 500,000 Girls
- Faced with failing antibiotics, scientists are using killer viruses to fight superbugs
- A moveable feast: Antibiotics give C. diff a nutrient-rich environment, no competition
- A Dangerous Antibiotic-Resistant Gene Has Spread The World. We Now Know Where It Started
- Dimethyl fumarate targets GAPDH and aerobic glycolysis to modulate immunity
- Antibiotic Use Jumps By 65 Percent In 15 Years, Despite Fears Of Drug Resistance
- H. pylori: tackling the germ behind stomach ulcers and cancer
- A possible solution to antibiotic resistance? Reprogramme bacteria, don't kill them
Endocrinology and Hormones
- The Menopause-Alzheimer’s Connection
- Stress-related hormone cortisol lowers significantly after just 45 minutes of art creation
- Twelve Signs That A Thyroid May Not Be Working As It Should
- Women with polycystic ovary syndrome have double the risk of liver disease
Oncology and Cancer
- Noninvasive brain tumor biopsy on the horizon
- New study sheds light on treating liver cancer
- Cutting-edge cancer drug hobbled by diagnostic test confusion
- Novel tool to predict patient survival rate of lung cancer patients
- Newly discovered drugs could help tackle treatment-resistant cancers
- Breast cancer therapy: All clear for the heart
- Cancer Immunotherapy Drug Simultaneously Targets Two Proteins that Block Immune Response
- Science Finally Explains How Cannabis Kills Cancer Cells And It’s Pretty Amazing
- 300 genes found at the root of cancers could spur more personalized treatments
- New camera inspired by butterfly eyes improves image-guided cancer surgery
- Drug Maker Will Soon Hold Patent On THC, CBD As Cancer Cures
- Study reveals a way to make prostate cancer cells run out of energy and die
- Cancer Genome Atlas studies reveal new insights, set stage for future research and treatment development
- Cancer researchers push to relax rules for clinical trials
- Infographic: Tumor-Associated Macrophages and Cancer
- Math can help uncover cancer's secrets
- A Really Common Medication Has Been Linked to Doubled Risk of Stomach Cancer
- A New Way to Grow Tumors in 3-D
- In laboratory, scientist turns off chemo pain
- We now have the first clear evidence cell phone radiation can cause cancer in rats
- Why Pancreatic Cancer Is on the Rise
- E-Cigarettes Found To Have ten times More Cancer Causing Ingredients Than Regular Cigarettes
Longevity and Aging
- Physiological basis for sex-specific differences in longevity
- South Korean women will soon outlive us all. What's their secret?
- Vascular aging reversed in mice
- Dietary supplement shows promise for reversing cardiovascular aging
Nutrition and Metabolism
- Want to remember your dreams? Try taking vitamin B6
- Labelling alcoholic drinks as lower in strength could encourage people to drink more, study
- Obesity inhibits key cancer defense mechanism, study
- Fish consumption could prevent Parkinson’s disease
- Non-Invasive Skin Patch Sucks Glucose Through Skin, Measures Blood Sugar Levels
- Mutant Enzyme That Eats Plastics Discovered by Accident
- Scientists Accidentally Create Mutant Enzyme That Eats Plastic Bottles
- Countering the stress of Mitochondria
- Will You Eat CRISPR Produce?
- Cutting salt intake in the US could save money and lives
- Fluoride Officially Classified As A Neurotoxin In World’s Top Medical Journals
- Caloric restriction increases lifespan but affects brain integrity in grey mouse lemur primates
- The Science and Translation of Lactate Shuttle Theory
- Scientists Found A Grass That Sparkles And Tastes Like Salt And Vinegar
- Three or four cups of coffee a day might be good for your health
- Scientists develop transparent patch to detect dangerous food threats
- Scientists harvest first vegetables in Antarctic greenhouse
- Altering silkworm genes to cause addition of useful protein into silk production
- Cold Water Vs. Warm Water: One of Them Is Damaging To Your Health
- Two More Studies Have Linked Legalized Marijuana To A Decrease In Opioid Use
- Experimental drug might reduce fat in blood, but a NASH cure? Not so fast
- Synthetic Cannabinoids Causing Citizen and Military U.S. Casualties
- Mitochondria Bound to Lipid Droplets Have Unique Bioenergetics, Composition, and Dynamics
- 'Legal' Synthetic Cannabis Has Killed 2 People And Left Others Bleeding From Their Eyes
- We took a scientific look at whether weed or alcohol is worse for you - and there appears to be a winner
- Scientists Have Invented A Fourth Type Of Chocolate
- Consuming Energy Drinks Every Day Can Cause Hepatitis
- Interview With Mitochondrial Dysfunction Expert Prof. Thomas Schwarz
- Vitamin D could be much more important to your health than you think
- How Alcohol Affects Your Brain
Miscellaneous
- Should humanity establish colonies on Mars?
- Contrary to reports, the Basic Income Experiment in Finland will continue until the end of 2018
- 2020 presidential candidate wants to give everyone $1,000 a month
- The Scientific Paper Is Obsolete
- 'Is Curing Patients a Sustainable Business Model?' Goldman Sachs Analysts Ask
- If you can’t explain something in simple terms, you don’t understand it
- Is Humanity Unusual In The Cosmos?
- World's languages traced back to single African mother tongue
- Your true self: How your personality changes throughout life
- Transhumanism is Being Guided by Reason and the Word “Why”
- The books you should read in 2018, according to Harvard professors
- Five predictions for what life will be like in 2030
May 2018
In May, robots were grasping the art of gripping. The WHO decided to view gaming addiction as a mental health condition. Artificial enzymes were made that used light to kill bacteria.
Machine Learning, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
- Pilot Study Validates Artificial Intelligence to Help Predict School Violence
- Particle physicists turn to AI to cope with CERN’s collision deluge
- New Google AI Division Differs From Microsoft AI Approach
- Linking time-series of single-molecule experiments with molecular dynamics simulations by machine learning
- The White House says a new AI task force will protect workers and keep America first
- China wants to shape the global future of artificial intelligence
- The president of France is promoting AI, European style
- Here’s how the US needs to prepare for the age of artificial intelligence
- The Future of Fishing Is Big Data and Artificial Intelligence
- AI program gets really good at navigation by developing a brain-like GPS system
- AI recreates activity patterns that brain cells use in navigation
- The Dark Secret at the Heart of AI
- Inspecting Algorithms for Bias
- Vector-based navigation using grid-like representations in artificial agents
- ‘Wild West’ Ohio Beckons Self-Driving Cars Even After Uber Death
- How robots are grasping the art of gripping
- How artificial intelligence is shaping religion in the 21st century
- People are freaking out about Google’s extremely human-sounding phone-call-making AI
- The Robots Running This Way
- Pretty sure Google's new talking AI just beat the Turing test
- Sex robots are coming. We might even fall in love with them
- Deep Learning with Ensembles of Neocortical Microcircuits - Dr. Blake Richards
- Powering the Robotic Future
- European AI Startups: Apply now for a chance to win $100,000 and an AI Supercomputer
- Robot U: The First American A.I. Undergrad Program is Here, and Already Incredibly Elite
- Gesellschaftliche Auswirkungen von künstlicher Intelligenz
- The first wireless flying robotic insect takes off
- Drones That Kill on Their Own: Will Artificial Intelligence Reach the Battlefield?
- Why are we teaching AI and machines to become like humans
- The U.S. Army Is Turning to Robot Soldiers
- AI Can't Reason Why
- Insect-size robots are breaking their tethers
- Interview with Artificial Intelligence and Speech Recognition Expert Prof. Frank Rudzicz
- The next step in our relationship with robots might be chit chat
- Top 5: Tips for using AI in your business
- Walmart has patented autonomous robot bees
- Neural Lace and Deep Learning
- India has an AI plan - but it's a long way from catching up with China and the US
- We need a new Operating System for the Fourth Industrial Revolution
- AI program gets really good at navigation by developing a brain-like GPS system
- Carnegie Mellon is set to offer the first undergrad AI degree in the US
- India is using facial-recognition to reunite missing children with their families
- Forget the space race, the AI race is just beginning
- Google pushes artificial intelligence for upgraded news app
- Motorless swimming robot powers ahead as the temperature rises
- Google’s new tools will make your life more convenient - for a price
- It takes a single autonomous car to prevent phantom traffic jams
- This Man Is the Godfather the AI Community Wants to Forget
- "House of the Future" Shows How VR and Robots Will Transform Homes in 2050
- Self-driving cars are useless without specialized maps—this invention could free them
- Drollige Roboter werden uns eines Tages versklaven
- A school in China is monitoring students with facial-recognition technology that scans the classroom every 30 seconds
- Why we must learn to trust AI
- Medicina Ex Machina
- The UK wants to build a cancer-diagnosing AI to save lives
- Artificial intelligence is learning to see in the dark
- This DeepMind AI Spontaneously Developed Digital Navigation ‘Neurons’ Like Ours
- Roundup Of Machine Learning Forecasts And Market Estimates, 2018
- Self-healing material a breakthrough for bio-inspired robotics
- How a Pioneer of Machine Learning Became One of Its Sharpest Critics
- Google and Coursera launch a new machine learning specialization
- Will AI Ever Become Conscious?
- MIT’s Super-Efficient Dispatching Algorithm Minimizes a City's Taxi Fleet
- Can you handle the tooth? AI helps dentists design fake gnashers
- The head of the National Cancer Institute on hopes for AI, the future of precision medicine, and big data
- Hello World Canada: The Rise of AI
- The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity
- Ten Real-World Examples of Machine Learning and AI
- AI footstep recognition system could be used for airport security
- Driverless Technology, Not Just Automobiles
- General AI should have universal human rights
- Deep Learning: Advanced Computer Vision
- China turns to Robotic Policing
- Time To Put More Thought Into Artificial Intelligence
- How artificial intelligence is transforming the world
Quantum Computing and Other Non-Standard Approaches to Computing
- Google Just Launched A New Operating System
- Deeper understanding of quantum chaos may be the key to quantum computers
- IBM: Quantencomputer werden bald jede Verschlüsselung knacken
- Quantum Computing Update: Scientists Successfully Control Atom Position and Entanglement
- How Close Are We - Really - to Building a Quantum Computer?
Molecular Biology, Genetics, Gene Therapy and Regenerative Medicine
- Scientists now can observe how cells move inside the human body
- Women retain and carry living DNA from every man with whom they’ve made love with
- Maths researchers find the rules that govern how cells work
- Human intestine on-a-chip: state-of-the-art and into the future
- Scientists downsize bold plan to make human genome from scratch
- Move over, CRISPR: MAGESTIC makes for gentler gene-editing
- Successful Neural Stem Cell Therapy Without Immunosuppression
- To make medicines of the future, hospitals build their own cell factories
- As D.I.Y. Gene Editing Gains Popularity, ‘Someone Is Going to Get Hurt’
- Diverse mechanisms for endogenous regeneration and repair in mammalian organs
- Seeing Inside of a Living Cell
- What we've learned about the nucleolus since you left school
- Embryogenesis and Adult Life in the Absence of Intrinsic Apoptosis Effectors BAX, BAK, and BOK
- A soap-like synthetic aims to restore breath to injured lungs
- PNPT1 Release from Mitochondria during Apoptosis Triggers Decay of Poly(A) RNAs
- Here comes a more precise version of CRISPR
- David Liu launches Beam Therapeutics to treat genetic diseases with CRISPR base editing
- Bioengineering strategies to accelerate stem cell therapeutics
- Structure of Telomerase with Telomeric DNA
- Robots Can Grow Humanoid Mini-Organs From Stem Cells Faster And Better Than People
- Receptor-Mediated Delivery of CRISPR-Cas9 Endonuclease for Cell-Type-Specific Gene Editing
- Cells Talk in a Language That Looks Like Viruses
- SOSV’s Bill Liao: ‘Synthetic biology is as important as the discovery of fire’
- Home DNA Kit Test Didn't Recognize Sample Actually Came From A Dog
- Researchers mine emergency contacts to discover genetic clues to disease
- New Zealand is using gene editing to control wildlife
- A finely resolved phylogeny of Y chromosome Hg J illuminates the processes of Phoenician and Greek colonizations in the Mediterranean
- A new synthetic molecule may solve a paradox about life’s origin
- Heredity beyond the gene
- Which is more powerful: genetic or epigenetic variation?
- 'Sea Nomads' Are First Known Humans Genetically Adapted to Diving
- Masters of Our DNA: Designer Bodies Are Not Science Fiction
- Our genes affect everything from height to heart disease
- Cell chat: Attacking disease by learning the language of cells
- Lab-Grown Human-Chicken Hybrid Embryos Are No 'Frankenfowl'
- ‘Reprogrammed’ stem cells approved to mend human hearts for the first time
- First 3D printed human corneas
Neuroscience and Brain Research
- Smart people literally have bigger brain cells than the rest
- Scientists to grow 'mini-brains' using Neanderthal DNA
- MIT Scientists prove adults learn language to fluency nearly as well as children
- Biologists 'transfer' a memory
- Sind kluge Köpfe weniger stark vernetzt?
- This device lets you talk to your computer - without saying a word
- Magnetic stimulation dampens brain response to drug cues in addiction
- Princeton researchers crowdsource brain mapping with gamers, discover six new neuron types
- Sex Differences in the Adult Human Brain: Evidence from 5216 UK Biobank Participants
- Scientists Bring A Severed Brain Back To Life, Sparking Ethical Debate
- Brain inflammatory cascade controlled by gut-derived molecules
- GABA, GABA, GABA, what does it actually do in the brain?
- Moderate UV Exposure Enhances Learning and Memory by Promoting a Novel Glutamate Biosynthetic Pathway in the Brain
- ScienceAlert Deal: This Meditation App Uses Machine Learning to Help You De-Stress
- Is It Rational to Trust Your Gut Feelings?
- On ways to overcome the magical capacity limit of working memory
- Prefrontal cortex as a meta-reinforcement learning system
- Astroglial CB1 Receptors Determine Synaptic D-Serine Availability to Enable Recognition Memory
- Shaping Synapses by the Neural Extracellular Matrix
- Elevated homocysteine identified as metabolic risk factor for neurodegenerative diseases
- Cortical drive and thalamic feed-forward inhibition control thalamic output synchrony during absence seizures
- Deshalb sind manche Menschen besonders gewalttätig
- Effortless thinking: The god-shaped hole in your brain
- New Sensor Discovery Has Implications for Brain Research
- Memory Transferred between Snails, Challenging Standard Theory of How the Brain Remembers
- How to Program Your Mind to Stop Buying Crap You Don’t Need
- Trusting your gut could be the most rational way to make decisions
- Irregular bedtimes could be damaging children's health and development
- Some people have no visual imagery
- Moderate to high intensity exercise does not slow cognitive decline in people with dementia
- Distinct neural mechanisms for reading Arabic vs verbal numbers: an ERP study
- Aha! What happens in your brain when you have a lightbulb moment
- Brain signaling mechanism in social isolation induced stress
- Synaptic nanomodules underlie the organization and plasticity of spine synapses
- The Smarter You Are The Less Dendrites You Have
- Blood from umbilical cord may help fix your brain after a stroke
- Does the brain store information in discrete or analog form?
- Some people with synaesthesia feel other people's sensations of touch – painful and pleasurable
- Pregnancy drug DES might have triggered ADHD in the grandchildren of women who used it
- Princeton researchers crowdsource brain mapping with gamers, discover six new neuron types
- Cannabis kehrt Alterungsprozesse im Gehirn um
- Why the pharmaceutical industry is giving up the search for an Alzheimer’s cure
- Leg exercise is critical to brain and nervous system health
- Scientists Transfer a Memory From one Snail to Another
- Why do humans have such huge brains?
- Sex Differences in the Adult Human Brain: Evidence from 5216 UK Biobank Participants
- Mice regrow brain tissue after stroke with bioengineered gel
- Marijuana Compound Removes Toxic Alzheimer's Protein From The Brain
- The brain’s frontal lobe could be involved in chronic pain: U of T research
- Which role does the brain play in prosocial behavior?
- Writing a daily diary can literally change your brain
- Neurofeedback is Not For Everyone: The Dangers of Neurology
- Scientists Reverse Alzheimer’s in Mice
- A neural network for intermale aggression to establish social hierarchy
- How moderate sunlight exposure improves learning and memory
- Alzheimers Reversed by Editing a Single Gene
- Scaffolding Gel Spurs Regrowth of Damaged Brain Tissue
- When it comes to heart and brain disorders, sex matters
- Tender Images Reveal Life Inside an Alzheimer's Ward
- 'Second brain' neurons keep colon moving
- Head and Heart: An Unusual Partnership to Break New Ground in Biomedical Research
- The brain cells that drive schizophrenia
- Genetic Adaptation to Cold Brought Migraines With It
- Scientists show how brain circuit generates anxiety
- A New Genetic Clue to How Humans Got Such Big Brains
- Genes found only in humans influence brain size
Psychiatry and Mental Health
- Being Creative Increases Your Risk Of Schizophrenia By 90 Percent
- How to handle the dark days of depression
- What to do to improve postgraduate mental health
- Schizophrenia affects your body, not just your brain – new study
- Schlafmangel tut der Psyche nicht gut
- Excitatory connections between the prelimbic and infralimbic medial prefrontal cortex show a role for the prelimbic cortex in fear extinction
- Scientists Have Identified The Physical Source of Anxiety in The Brain
- This is the importance of sleep on your mental health
- Four Tools For Lowering Anxiety In Any Situation So You Can Perform Better
- Depression is the no. 1 cause of ill health and disability worldwide
- Gaming addiction is now seen as a mental health condition by the WHO
- Promise of Faster, More Accessible Schizophrenia Diagnosis, Rutgers Study Shows
Immunity and Infectious Diseases
- The Virus That Causes Mono Linked To Seven Autoimmune Diseases
- The dying scientist and his rogue vaccine trial
- Microbes living in a toxic volcanic lake could hold clues to life on Mars
- Renowned Biohacker Who Injected Himself With Untested Herpes Treatment Has Been Found Dead
- New study links gray hair with immune system activity and viral infection
- In Ancient Skeletons, Scientists Discover a Modern Foe: Hepatitis B
- The oldest virus ever found is an STI
- The New Ebola Outbreak Could Take 'Three, Maybe Four' Months to Control
- Computer-guided design of optimal microbial consortia for immune system modulation
- Emma Wetter-Slack - Winner of the ETH Zurich Latsis Prize 2017
- Enchained growth and cluster dislocation: a possible mechanism for microbiota homeostasis
- Inflammation: How to Cool the Fire Inside You That’s Making You Fat and Diseased
- Ebola Is Back. Here's How The New Outbreak Is Different From 2014
- Mosquito spit may affect your immune system for days
- The Next Deadly Pandemic Could Be Unlike Any Threats We Know, Say Experts
- No, Seriously, We May Finally Have a Drug to Beat the Common Cold
- Your blood type might make you more likely to get traveler’s diarrhea
- Experimental drugs poised for use in Ebola outbreak
- Most Maps of the New Ebola Outbreak Are Wrong
- What Is Nipah Virus? Outbreak in India Kills at Least Ten
- Inflammation and Chronic Disease
- How to train your virus
- Ingestible “bacteria on a chip” could help diagnose disease
- Does studying yellow fever offer Zika clues?
- NCI study finds gut microbiome can control antitumor immune function in liver
- Renewable industrial chemicals from bioengineered bacteria
- New Smallpox-Related Virus Found Lurking in Texas Rodents
- Evidence for convergent evolution of host parasitic manipulation in response to environmental conditions
Endocrinology and Hormones
- Early Time-Restricted Feeding Improves Insulin Sensitivity, Blood Pressure, and Oxidative Stress
- Brainy Hormones
- Type 2 diabetes: Intermittent fasting may raise risk
- How to Increase Your Happy Hormones Naturally to Remove Negativity from Your Life
- Cause of polycystic ovary syndrome discovered at last
- Chemical controllers: How hormones influence your body and mind
- Cause of polycystic ovary syndrome discovered at last
- Twelve Signs That A Thyroid May Not Be Working As It Should
- Focus on Endocrinology
- Medical Engineers Have Built A EpiPen Replacement That Costs $16 A Shot
- Brain implant for OCD surprisingly helps alleviate diabetes too
- Oxytocin, vasopressin flatten social hierarchy and synchronize behaviors
Oncology and Cancer
- Sharp rise in aggressive brain cancer is linked to mobile phones with cases more than doubling over two decades
- Cancer-killing viruses show promise — and draw billion-dollar investment
- Cancer treatment changes cancer cells into normal ones
- Mittel gegen Metastasen entdeckt?
- Unresolved endoplasmic reticulum stress engenders immune-resistant, latent pancreatic cancer metastases
- Spermbots offer a promising new way to target cancer
- Two-Step Senescence-Focused Cancer Therapies
- How pancreatic cancer spreads after surgery
- Inflammatory foods are linked with higher colon cancer risk
- How graphene and gold could help us test drugs and monitor cancer
- Brustkrebs: Osteoporose-Medikament für bessere Heilungschancen
- Long-sought structure of telomerase paves way for drugs for aging, cancer
- Babies should mix with other children to lower leukaemia risk
- How gut microbes are joining the fight against cancer
- If Cancer Can't Survive In An Alkaline Environment, Why Don't We Use That As A Treatment?
- Tiny particles could help fight brain cancer
- Where Did Cancer Come From?
- Fifty years since DNA repair was linked to cancer
- Research in mice may explain CAR-T therapy’s toxic side effects - and how to block them
- CLL Patient Treated at Penn Goes Into Remission Thanks to Single CAR T Cell
- Looking beyond mutations, researchers take a new approach to an old oncogene
- Learning from a cancer’s past could predict its future
Longevity and Aging
- Harvard scientists say these five things can prolong your life by a decade
- Mortality in Acromegaly decreased in the last decade: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
- A stealthy Harvard startup wants to reverse aging in dogs, and humans could be next
- CD36 initiates the secretory phenotype during the establishment of cellular senescence
- Will humans one day live forever?
- Scientists Reverse Vascular Aging
- A novel approach of human geroprotector discovery by targeting the converging subnetworks of aging and age-related diseases
- Intensive lifestyle change: It works, and it’s more than diet and exercise
- Ten Foods to Never Eat If You Want to Live a Long Life
- These five simple habits could add years to your life
- Exercise to stay young: 4-5 days a week to slow down your heart's aging
- These animations show the Western world is rapidly ageing
- Short-Term, Intermittent Fasting Induces Long-Lasting Gut Health and TOR-Independent Lifespan Extension
- This Radical Research to Extend Human Life is About DNA Lengthening
- Fast-Evolving Human-Specific Neural Enhancers Are Associated with Aging-Related Diseases
- A Health and Longevity Strategy
Nutrition and Metabolism
- Study Might Suggest Cannabis Could Be A Viable Treatment For Symptoms Of Crohn’s Disease
- Lab-grown Meat and Veganism Movements Surge in Response to Climate Change
- Can A Cocktail Of Vitamins And Steroids Cure A Major Killer In Hospitals?
- This device pulls water from thin air
- The WHO Just Declared War on The Single Most Dangerous Type of Fat
- What we inherited from our bug-eating ancestors
- Niacin for people with or without established cardiovascular disease
- The Most Damaging Addictive Drugs Are Not The Ones You Think, Report Shows
- Artificial Enzymes Use Light to Kill Bacteria
- Six Science-Backed Reasons Why Marijuana Causes Serious Harm
- Three or four cups of coffee a day might be good for your health
- Eating One Egg a Day Is Linked With a Seriously Lower Risk of Heart Disease
- New algorithm predicts life expectancy after heart failure
- Carbon dioxide (CO2) levels this century will alter the protein, micronutrients, and vitamin content of rice grains
- This Food Poisoning Expert Revealed The Six Things He Refuses To Eat
- Pink pineapples and healthy fries: The new GM foods made for you
- Oxalo Therapeutics Seeks to Help Kidney Stone Patients
- Cockroach Milk Has More Protein And Nutrients Than Regular Milk: The Next Superfood Trend?
- Study identifies processes in the gut that drive fat build-up around the waist
- Those Vitamin And Mineral Supplements You’re Taking Make No Difference To Your Health
Miscellaneous
- End of days: Is Western civilisation on the brink of collapse?
- Half the world’s population is still offline. Here’s why that matters
- Life in 2030: these are the four things experts can't predict
- We have a pretty good idea of when humans will go extinct
- Elon Musk Thinks Flying Cars Could 'Guillotine' People on The Ground
- Nine Things That Are Scientifically Proven To Attract Women
- China's social credit system has blocked people from taking 11 million flights and 4 million train trips
- This is what the world might look like in 2118
- Why political and economic freedom drives creativity
- The US military released a study on warp drives and faster-than-light travel
June 2018
In June, there were a few publications about depression.
Machine Learning, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
- Automation in the Legal Industry: How Will It Affect Law School Grads?
- Machine learning predicts World Cup winner
- How we’re using Darwin’s theory of evolution to build robots that can adapt and learn on their own
- Las Vegas Food Service Workers Are Going on Strike So They Don’t Lose Their Jobs to Robots
- USB researchers develop a fast, low-voltage actuator for soft and wearable robotics
- Top 22 Deep Learning Papers
- Apple’s Core ML 2 vs. Google’s ML Kit: What’s the difference?
- A self-balancing exoskeleton lets wheelchair users walk again
- IBM Watson Layoffs: Is Healthcare AI Ready for Prime Time?
- This Electronic Skin Allows User Of Prosthetic Hand To Feel Pain
- An artificial nerve system developed at Stanford gives prosthetic devices and robots a sense of touch
- China turns to robotic policing
- It's a new day for architecture and robots have a major role to play
- Deep learning extends imaging depth and speeds up hologram reconstruction
- How researchers are teaching AI to learn like a child
- Philosopher Peter Singer on AI, Transhumanism and Ethics
- Probability concepts explained: Bayesian inference for parameter estimation
- Artificial intelligence... or advanced imitation? How DeepMind used YouTube vids to train game-beating Atari bot
- China’s schools are quietly using AI to mark students’ essays ... but do the robots make the grade?
- How Robots Will Break Politics
- Researchers develop electronic skins that wirelessly activate fully soft robots
- Prefrontal cortex as a meta-reinforcement learning system
- Attacks against machine learning - an overview
- Google won’t renew its military AI contract
- Telexistence Robot Is The Future Of Shopping You've Seen In Movies
- Self-Driving Cars Can Now Pick Up Passengers in California - But Only for Free Rides
- Simple RNN vs GRU vs LSTM: Difference lies in More Flexible control
- One big thing: How the robot revolution is changing our lives
- Sean Moncrieff: The dark side of artificial intelligence is doomsday scary
- Fundamentals of robotics
- Fifth World Machine Learning and Deep Learning Congress
- Surgical robot set to be game changer for major spine complications
- Resources to understand Nuts and Bolts of Deep learning
- Machine Learning Illuminates the Body’s Dark Matter
- Towards Reinforcement Learning Inspired By Humans Without Human Demonstrations
- Virtual robots that teach themselves kung fu could revolutionize video games
- Google’s AutoML will change how businesses use Machine Learning
- AllenNLP: A Deep Semantic Natural Language Processing Platform
- Do Better ImageNet Models Transfer Better?
- The Cyborgs Are Here: Researchers Put Living Cells In A Robotic Finger
- How this new AI-based tech can be a boon for privacy
- Human society isn't ready for artificial intelligence
- Computer erkennt Hautkrebs besser als Ärzte
- AI researchers should help with some military work
- On Artificial Intelligence and Its Applications
- Google: Keine künstliche Intelligenz für Waffen
- AI researchers design 'privacy filter' for your photos
- ML basics: Feature Selection
- Self-Healing, Sensitive Robots: The Future of Robotics
- Killer robots will only exist if we are stupid enough to let them
- Machine learning reveals quantum phases of matter
- Tesla's AI director gives insights into Autopilot's computer vision and neural net development
- AI could get 100 times more energy-efficient with IBM's new artificial synapses
- Fighting Aging with Artificial Intelligence
- AI senses people's pose through walls
- Microsoft is hiring engineers to work on A.I. chip design for its cloud
- AI could predict your next move from watching your eye gaze
- AI Awakening
- Google can use AI to predict when you'll DIE - with 95% accuracy
- How to control robots with brainwaves and hand gestures
- Aristo - An intelligent system that reads, learns, and reasons about science
- Free E-Book: A Developer’s Guide to Building AI Applications
- How the Big Data Revolution in Healthcare Is Putting Patients in Charge
- Algorithm speeds medical image analysis
- Future of AI & Longevity
- Making a case for artificial intelligence in the legal profession
- Is Machine Learning key to Psychometrics?
- How Artificial Intelligence Could Help Us Live Longer
- A team of AI algorithms just crushed humans in a complex computer game
- Stanford AI recreates chemistry’s periodic table of elements
- Algorithmen übertrumpfen menschliche Dota-2-Spieler
- Machine learning predicts World Cup winner
- How Unsupervised Meta Learning Easily Acquires Information About New Environments
Quantum Computing and Other Non-Standard Approaches to Computing
- The Era of Quantum Computing Is Here. Outlook: Cloudy
- The Race for the Quantum Computer
- Compact 3D Quantum Memory Achieved: Long Storage Plus Fast Readout
- Volkswagen using quantum computers to build better EV batteries
- Move Over, China: U.S. Is Again Home to World’s Speediest Supercomputer
- The Argument Against Quantum Computers
- The Supercomputer That Could Map the Human Brain
- Finally, a Problem That Only Quantum Computers Will Ever Be Able to Solve
Molecular Biology, Genetics, Gene Therapy and Regenerative Medicine
- Let's get real: What can we bioprint? (And what is just media hype?)
- Synthetic ‘Tissues’ Build Themselves
- The cartography of the nucleus
- Scientists develop material that could regenerate dental enamel
- Enzymatic DNA synthesis is coming
- MiCEE is a ncRNA-protein complex that mediates epigenetic silencing and nucleolar organization
- Cryo-EM structures of complex I from mouse heart mitochondria in two biochemically defined states
- Complementation of mitochondrial electron transport chain by manipulation of the NAD+/NADH ratio
- Transcriptional profiling reveals extraordinary diversity among skeletal muscle tissues
- Pioneering surgery makes a prosthetic foot feel like the real thing
- Million-dollar Kavli prize recognizes scientist scooped on CRISPR
- Stroke Survivor Walks Again After Doctors Inject Stem Cells Directly into Brain
- New artificial nerves could transform prosthetics
- How Do DNA Ancestry Tests Really Work?
- Biologists discover gene responsible for unique appearance of butterflies’ dorsal wings
- Why Do Genes Suggest Most Men Died Off 7,000 Years Ago?
- New nanotech sensor that turns molecular fingerprints into bar codes
- A stem cell fix for spinal injury
- Pill Combines Biology, Electronics to Recognize Diseases
- CRISPR fans fight for egalitarian access to gene editing
- Scientists Synthesize First Artificial Human Prion
- A hydrogel restores breathing after spinal cord injury in animal models
- Blood clues tell of gene targets for brain diseases
- Gene signatures and biomarkers predict onset of rheumatoid arthritis in at-risk individuals
- New human gene tally reignites debate
- Theory Suggests That All Genes Affect Every Complex Trait
- The ‘New Pharma’: Synthetic biology reimagines drug development
- Gene-edited pigs are resistant to billion-dollar virus
- Genetically modified bacteria enlisted in fight against disease
Neuroscience and Brain Research
- Serotonin and confidence underlie patience in new study
- Bees Can Understand an Incredibly Complicated Mathematical Concept
- WEBINAR - Neuro-Photobiomodulation for Health, Meditation and Peak Performance
- Where are memories stored in the brain?
- Study reveals brain activity patterns underlying fluent speech
- Flexible organic electronics mimic biological mechanosensory nerves
- Brains grow brand new neurons after experimental drug injection
- Can focused sound waves fix rare 'giggling' form of epilepsy?
- Bigger human brain prioritizes thinking hub - at a cost
- Artificial Nerve Senses Pressure, Moves Cockroach Leg
- Drowsy worms offer new insights into the neuroscience of sleep
- The brain is able to anticipate painful movements following injury
- Theory of predictive brain as important as evolution – Prof. Lars Muckli
- Structural modularity and grid activity in the medial entorhinal cortex
- Neural mechanisms of navigation involving interactions of cortical and subcortical structures
- May the power be with you: are there highly powered studies in neuroscience, and how can we get more of them?
- Twice-Weekly Interferon Beta-1a Effective for Reducing MS Relapse
- Neuroprotective Molecule Could Improve Memory and Cognition
- Weltführende Medizinjournale: Fluorid offiziell als Neurotoxin klassifiziert
- Science says you should never feel guilty about taking a break
- How to Control the Amygdala of Your Brain to Turn off Your Anxiety
- Emotional intelligence: What it is and why you need it
- A New Vision For The Future: An IoT Solution To Assist Blind People With Sighted Support
- Leg exercise is critical to brain and nervous system health
- How you talk to your child changes their brain
- Why sleepless nights could leave you more prone to Alzheimer's disease
- A New Model For Brain Communication
- The incredible mind-reading headset that automatically changes the plot of a film based on how bored you feel
- Ultrasound helmet would make live images, brain machine interface possible
- Like Sightseeing in Paris — A New Model for Brain Communication
- Impaired energy production may explain why the brain is susceptible to age-related diseases
- Optimal sleep linked to lower risks for dementia and early death
- Fur seals can go weeks without REM sleep
- Researchers reverse cognitive impairments in mice with dementia
- Overtaxed Working Memory Knocks the Brain Out of Sync
- Bees and the Thought of Naught
- Researchers find IQ scores dropping since the 1970s
- Smoking and diabetes linked to brain calcifications
- Brain Hacking Is Having Incredible Effects And It's Just Getting Started
- Mice regrow brain tissue after stroke with bioengineered gel
- 'Gut instinct' may have been the GPS of human ancestors
- Researchers map brain of blind patient who can see motion
- Psychedelic drugs promote neural plasticity in rats and flies
- More precise surgical tool for deep-brain stimulation offers a solution to waiting lists
- Half of those on Parkinson's drugs may develop impulse control problems
- Brain Matures Faster Due to Childhood Stress
- Exclusive: Neanderthal ‘minibrains’ grown in dish
- New study suggests viral connection to Alzheimer's disease
- Scientists solve the case of the missing subplate, with wide implications for brain science
- Scientists Find High Levels of Two Herpesvirus Strains in Brains of Alzheimer’s Disease Patients
- Study linking herpes and Alzheimer's rekindles debate over controversial old hypothesis
- Success of blood test for autism affirmed
- Scientists discover how brain signals travel to drive language performance
- 'Antifreeze' molecules may stop and reverse damage from brain injuries
- Smarter brains run on sparsely connected neurons
- How your brain decides between knowledge and ignorance
Psychiatry and Mental Health
- Depression: the radical theory linking it to inflammation
- New research predicts likelihood that one will believe conspiracy theories
- These Five Social Media Habits Are Linked with Depression
- Academics ‘face higher mental health risk’ than other professions
- How Depression Affects Your Thinking Skills
- Could Multiple Personality Disorder Explain Life, the Universe and Everything?
Immunity and Infectious Diseases
- Metabolic interactions between dynamic bacterial subpopulations
- New Compound Effective Against Drug-Resistant Pathogens Could Lead to Next-Generation Antibiotics
- Zika vaccine could eliminate prenatal infections
- The European approach to disinfectant qualification
- Fluorescent silk kills harmful bacteria
- Did science miss its best shot at an AIDS vaccine?
- Diagnosing infectious diseases like Zika or Dengue at home with a CRISPR kit
- Nanotechnology breakthrough: How cell-sized robots could target bacteria to fight diseases
- Biohackers are about open-access to science, not DIY pandemics. Stop misrepresenting us
- Bacterial balancing act: Preserving diversity while on the move
- Pandemics: spend on surveillance, not prediction
- Bacteria Survive in NASA’s Clean Rooms by Eating Cleaning Products
- Staph Bacteria can Sustain Infection by Eating Bone
- Russia's HIV/AIDS epidemic is getting worse, not better
- Staten Island Woman Diagnosed With Spinal Meningitis After Being Bitten By Tick
- Older adults increasingly have HPV+ oropharyngeal cancers
- Mitophagy in Intestinal Epithelial Cells Triggers Adaptive Immunity during Tumorigenesis
- The Next Plague Is Coming. Is America Ready?
- Gold producing bacteria
- Direct-acting antivirals effective for hepatitis C in seniors
Endocrinology and Hormones
- Turning on the Insulin switch in Type 2 Diabetes
- Twelve Signs That A Thyroid May Not Be Working As It Should
- Neue Methoden: Hoffnung für kinderlose Paare
- Delivering insulin in a pill - Technique could replace daily injections for diabetics
Oncology and Cancer
- Negative selection in tumor genome evolution acts on essential cellular functions and the immunopeptidome
- Marketing personalized cancer treatments requires careful language
- New Study Suggests Chemotherapy not Needed to Treat Breast Cancer
- Major pancreatic cancer breakthrough
- Microbubbles offer two-in-one cancer treatment
- Women in China Rarely Get Breast Cancer and Here Is Why
- Research provides insights into why older people respond poorly to cancer treatment
- Scientists find a link between cancer and aging inside our cells
Longevity and Aging
- Disruption of the beclin 1–BCL2 autophagy regulatory complex promotes longevity in mice
- Walking faster could make you live longer: research
- Increased Autophagy Promotes Healthy Longevity in Mice
- Can You Actually Hack Your DNA to Slow Down Aging?
- Probiotics and an herbal supplement increase life span
- Extracellular RNA profiles with human age
- How To Tackle Human Ageing: Neural Networks Are Now Being Explored In Biomarker Development
- Researchers Study Three Promising Anti-Aging Therapies
- Could switching blood pressure medication timing extend your life?
- Scientists find a link between cancer and aging inside our cells
- People Over 40 Should Only Work Three Days a Week, Study Concludes
Nutrition and Metabolism
- 1 in 5 Deaths Among Young Adults in the US is Opioid-related
- This Food Poisoning Expert Revealed The Six Things He Refuses To Eat
- Do Coffee Drinkers Really Fall into Three Groups?
- Sucking carbon dioxide from air is cheaper than scientists thought
- New optical sensor can determine if molecules are left or right 'handed'
- Why plant protein is better for you than animal protein
Miscellaneous
July 2018
In July, there was a publication about a new DNA synthesis method.
Machine Learning, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
- Here Are Free AI Learning Resources For Beginners
- Thousands of people in Sweden are embedding microchips under their skin to replace ID cards
- 'Breakthrough' algorithm exponentially faster than any previous one
- Why Microsoft’s big bet on deep learning could go bad
- Algorithm matches human cardiologists in detecting heart attacks
- AI Chatbot Defeats Healthcare Professionals in Medical Tests
- New Actuating Material Could Give Robots Artificial Muscles
- Swallowed sensor sends signal if you’re sick
- Juggalos figured out how to beat facial recognition
- Given a satellite image, machine learning creates the view on the ground
- Self-driving cars are headed toward an AI roadblock
- How AI, Machine Learning and Cognitive Computing Can Be Used in Enterprise
- DoD stands up its artificial intelligence hub
- Training artificial intelligence with artificial X-rays
- New Optimization Algorithm Exponentially Speeds Computation
- How Quantum Computing Will Change The Face Of Artificial Intelligence
- The rise of 'pseudo-AI': how tech firms quietly use humans to do bots' work
- Deep Nets: What have they ever done for Vision?
- AI-Powered Personalized Medicine – The Predictix Story So Far
- Künstliche Intelligenz – Algorithmen für das Gemeinwohl
- Reproducible ML: software challenges, anecdoctes and some engineering solutions
- Thousands of Top AI Experts Vow to Never Build Lethal Autonomous Weapons
- AI can be sexist and racist — it’s time to make it fair
- Leading artificial intelligence companies partner on a quest to solve Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
- Insilico and A2A launch new Duchenne-focused AI drug company
- Evolutionary algorithm outperforms deep-learning machines at video games
- This tiny robot could have big impacts on the future of nanotechnology
- Eagle-eyed machine learning algorithm outdoes human experts
- This AI Calculates at the Speed of Light
- Humans Show Racial Bias Towards Robots of Different Colors: Study
Quantum Computing and Other Non-Standard Approaches to Computing
Molecular Biology, Genetics, Gene Therapy and Regenerative Medicine
- New DNA Synthesis Method Could Soon Build a Genome in a Day
- CRISPR gene editing produces unwanted DNA deletions
- When a DNA Test Shatters Your Identity
- Scientists reverse aging-associated skin wrinkles and hair loss in a mouse model
- Genetic researchers reverse wrinkles, gray hair and balding in mice, called 'unprecedented'
- PNPase knockout results in mtDNA loss and an altered metabolic gene expression program
- Scientists Have Discovered an Entirely New Shape, And It Was Hiding in Your Cells
- Potential DNA Damage from CRISPR “Seriously Underestimated,” Study Finds
Neuroscience and Brain Research
- The 'Big Bang' of Alzheimer's: Scientists ID genesis of disease, focus efforts on shape-shifting tau
- Relationships Between Aptitudes and Brain Areas
- MIT scientists discover fundamental rule of brain plasticity
- Where the Brain Transforms Seeing into Acting
- Identification of individual subjects on the basis of their brain anatomical features
- Our Toddler Memories May Not Be Permanently Lost, Mouse Study Shows
- Extreme heat and reduced cognitive performance in adults in non-air-conditioned buildings
- Brain Cells Communicate with Mechanical Pulses, Not Electric Signals
- 3D image reveals hidden neurons in fruit-fly brain
- A new study shows that students learn way more effectively from print textbooks than screens
- The scent of coffee appears to boost performance in math
- Sugar improves memory in over-60s, helping them work smarter
Psychiatry and Mental Health
Immunity and Infectious Diseases
- Australia Will Now Fine Parents Twice A Month If They Fail To Vaccinate Their Kids
- Diagnostic connectivity to combat antimicrobial resistance
- Bill Gates thinks a coming disease could kill 30 million people within 6 months — and says we should prepare for it as we do for war
- ‘Frightening’ drug-resistant strain of typhoid spreads in Pakistan
Endocrinology and Hormones
- Wer 45 oder mehr Stunden arbeitet, hat höheres Diabetesrisiko
- Neuroendocrine and immune disequilibrium as a probable link between metabolic syndrome and carcinogenesis
Oncology and Cancer
Longevity and Aging
Nutrition and Metabolism
- Helfen uns Vitaminpillen und Co?
- New study finds that fat consumption is the only cause of weight gain
- 'Carbohydrates are killing us'
Miscellaneous
- 2084 – eine Vision
- New Evidence That the World Really Is Getting Better
- The 50 Most Influential Living Philosophers
August 2018
In August, it was suggested that in a decade, computers could be just one atom wide. There was also a publication about antibodies attacking the brain and muddling memory. China started treating Islam like a mental illness.
Machine Learning, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
- People in a new study struggled to turn off a robot when it begged them not to
- UCLA-developed artificial intelligence device identifies objects at the speed of light
- Raspberry PI Receives Official Support From TensorFlow
- Can artificial intelligence create Art?
- Why Westerners fear Robots and the Japanese do not
- Machine Learning’s ‘Amazing’ Ability to Predict Chaos
- MnasNet: Towards Automating the Design of Mobile Machine Learning Models
- Crowdsourcing algorithms to predict epileptic seizures
- Essential Math for Data Science - ‘Why’ and ‘How’
- Grenzen und Chancen für KI
- Is the Art Market Ready to Embrace Work Made by Artificial Intelligence?
- Connecting Deep Neural Networks to Physical, Perceptual, and Electrophysiological Auditory Signals
- Auto-Keras, or How You can Create a Deep Learning Model in 4 Lines of Code
- Advanced Artificial Intelligence Could Run The World Better Than Humans Ever Could
- Artificial Intelligence Is Now a Pentagon Priority
- Introducing a New Framework for Flexible and Reproducible Reinforcement Learning Research
- Auto-Keras, or How You can Create a Deep Learning Model in 4 Lines of Code
- Advanced Artificial Intelligence Could Run The World Better Than Humans Ever Could
- Artificial Intelligence Is Now a Pentagon Priority
- Introducing a New Framework for Flexible and Reproducible Reinforcement Learning Research
Quantum Computing and Other Non-Standard Approaches to Computing
- How to Build a Mini Supercomputer for Under $100
- In Less Than a Decade Your Computer Could Be Just One Atom Wide
Molecular Biology, Genetics, Gene Therapy and Regenerative Medicine
- The Genetics (and Ethics) of Making Humans Fit for Mars
- Stem cells to be transplanted into brains of Parkinson's patients in world-first trials
- Americans are okay with gene-editing embryos to create healthier babies
- Warum CRISPR und Co. auch Gentechnik sind
- Successfully Transplanted Lab-Grown Pig Lungs Take Us Closer to Custom Organs
- CRISPR ‘barcodes’ map mammalian development in exquisite detail
- New 3D-printed device could help treat spinal cord injuries
- Artificial Retinas Made Of This Ultra-Thin Super Material Could Help Millions See Again
- One step closer to bioengineered replacements for vessels and ducts
- UOT Researchers 3D Print Complex Vessel Tissue With Custom Bioprinter
- Cracking the sugar code: Why the ‘glycome’ is the next big thing in health and medicine
- Scientists pinpoint the ear protein that allows us to hear
Neuroscience and Brain Research
- Discovery presents treatment hope for Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases
- Probiotic use is a link between brain fogginess, severe bloating
- Energy Saved, Sleep Lost: The Unintended Consequences of LED Lighting
- Neuroscience societies join outcry over treatment of Max Planck neuroscientist
- What's it like inside a brain?
- An Observatory for the (Mouse) Brain
- Challenges in Studying Multidimensional Semantic Representations in the Human Brain
- A minimally invasive neurostimulation method for controlling abnormal synchronisation in the neuronal activity
- How to trigger innate fear response?
- Your Brain Contains Magnetic Particles, and Scientists Want to Know Why
- Miniature Brains of Bees and Wasps Recognize Faces
- How antibodies attack the brain and muddle memory
- Human and reptile brains aren't so different after all
- What you can do to prevent Alzheimer's
- How brains of doers differ from those of procrastinators
- How Neuroscience Helps Us to Understand Human Nature
- Stanford study shows how head and neck positioning affects concussion risk
- MS researchers find new ways to regenerate the brain's insulation
- Study Adds to Evidence that Lower Brain Serotonin Levels are Linked to Dementia
- Mysterious new brain cell found in people
- Potential link between brain trauma and degenerative brain disease revealed
- In spoken word recognition the future predicts the past
Psychiatry and Mental Health
- Magnesium Treats Depression Better Than Antidepressant Drugs
- Reconceptualizing mental disorders: From symptoms to organs
- Air pollution causes ‘huge’ reduction in intelligence, study reveals
- Analysis of shared heritability in common disorders of the brain
- Psychiatrische Erkrankungen genetisch verwandt
- Schmutzige Luft mindert Intelligenz
- Scientists discover a genetic link between cannabis use and schizophrenia
- China Is Treating Islam Like a Mental Illness
Immunity and Infectious Diseases
- Tackling hepatitis C elimination via diagnostic technologies
- Distribution of biocide resistant genes and biocides susceptibility in multidrug-resistant bacteria
- Study Fasting for 72 Hours can Regenerate the Entire Immune System of Humans
- Gut bacteria involved in eating for pleasure
Oncology and Cancer
- CAR-T May Be a Silver Bullet Against Cancer - and Here’s What Else It Can Do
- Neue Reaktion soll Krebsmittel verbessern
Longevity and Aging
- Key aspects of human cell aging reversed by new compounds
- Key aspects of human cell aging reversed by new compounds
- Dr. Aubrey de Grey - Rejuvenation is Finally an Industry
- Big Pharma Ignores Possible Anti-Aging Drug Because It Costs 5 Cents Per Pill
- Think 80 Years Is A Long Time? Take a Look At This
- People with Weak Muscles Are More Likely to Die Early, Says Study
Nutrition and Metabolism
- There's no safe amount of alcohol to drink
- Dietary carbohydrate intake and mortality: a prospective cohort study and meta-analysis
- Scientists find that common dietary elements cure lethal infections, eliminating the need for antibiotics
- Turmeric Spices Found Heavily Contaminated with Toxic Lead
September 2018
In September, there were a couple of publications about alternatives to chemo therapy.
Machine Learning, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
- Self-driving homes could be the future of affordable housing
- How does Netflix recommend movies? Matrix Factorization
- Left Ventricle Segmentation and Volume Estimation on Cardiac MRI using Deep Learning
- Auckland researchers make world-first discovery into artificial intelligence
- Dopamine: Improved Reinforcement Learning and... Pleasure for Machines?
- Artificial Intelligence Podcast
- World’s First AI That Can Predict A Person’s Choices Before They Make It
- Global Healthcare Artificial Intelligence Market 2018
- The Imminent Impact of Artificial Intelligence and Bio-Engineering
- This new AI can track 200 eye movements to determine your personality traits
- Catastrophic Importance of Catastrophic Forgetting in Neural Networks
- New Versius robot surgery system coming to NHS
- New Male Robots With ”Bionic Genital Organs” May Just Replace Men For Good
- Bundesregierung will KI und autonome Systeme in die Fläche bringen
- When Robots Play Music - Automatica
- A cyborg cockroach could someday save your life
- Scaling neural machine translation to bigger data sets with faster training and inference
- All-optical machine learning using diffractive deep neural networks
- Defense Department pledges billions toward artificial intelligence research
- Artificial Intelligence Could Be The Key To Longevity
- When Bayes, Ockham, and Shannon come together to define machine learning
- Machine Learning Top 10 Articles for the Past Month
- Taking machine thinking out of the black box
- AI can recognize images. But can it understand this headline?
- What is Decision Tree and How it works?
- Elon Musk & Joe Rogan on Artificial Intelligence
- World’s First AI That Detect A Incurable Diseases - Multiple Sclerosis
- Doctors said the coma patients would never wake. AI said they would - and they did
- Artificial synaptic device simulating the function of human brain
- Manami Ito playing violin with her prosthetic arm will make your day
- The 4 Waves of AI: Who Will Own the Future of Technology?
- Future of AI and Longevity
- This artificial intelligence app wants to make beautiful music with you
- A plan to advance AI by exploring the minds of children
- 15 Jobs That Will Disappear In The Next 20 Years Due To AI
- How to explain the future of artificial intelligence using only sci-fi films
- Machine Learning in Javascript - A compilation of Resources
- AI helps unlock ‘dark matter’ of bizarre superconductors
- ‘Digital brain in the cloud’ could provide real-time injury awareness
- 10 Machine Learning Algorithms You Should Know in 2018
- Nvidia researchers develop AI system that generates synthetic scans of brain cancer
- Machines Are Going To Perform More Tasks Than Humans By 2025
- Automation: The Exaggerated Threat of Robots
- MIT Is Building a Health-Tracking Sensor That Can See Through Walls
- Facebook Creates an AI-Based Tool To Automate Bug Fixes
- European Parliament Passes Resolution Calling For An International Ban On Killer Robots
- AI Detects 72 Fast Radio Bursts Coming from a Distant, Unknown Source
- The Era of Robot Culture
- An AI startup that claimed it can beat doctors in an exam is putting $100 million into creating 500 new jobs
- Blockchain & KI: auf dem Weg zur Industrie 5.0?
- Künstliche Intelligenz & Blockchain: Chance für die Medienbranche?
- Efficient tuning of online systems using Bayesian optimization
- Big Data Gives the “Big 5” Personality Traits a Makeover
- Scientists determine four personality types based on new data
- Machine learning - Is the emperor wearing clothes?
- Künstliche Intelligenz - Sind Roboter bereits so schlau?
- This 26-year-old Nigerian is now the highest paid robotics engineer in the world
- Artificial Intelligence To Create 58 Million New Jobs By 2022, Says Report
- IBM launches tool aimed at detecting AI bias
- Google has Open Sourced the Amazing ‘What-If Tool’ to Perform Code-Free Visual ML Experiments
- Depth Estimation Using Encoder-Decoder Networks and Self-Supervised Learning
- Nvidia researchers develop AI system that generates synthetic scans of brain cancer
- What We Have to Gain From Making Machines More Human
- A Global Conversation on Artificial Intelligence
- Semantic Segmentation with Deep Learning: A guide and code
- KI-Experte Toby Walsh: "Terminator ist noch 100 Jahre entfernt"
- The 10 fastest growing jobs in the world require people skills, not AI
- Still no Ban on Killer Robots
- "Künstliche Intelligenz könnte eine zweite Renaissance bringen"
- Machine learning - Is the emperor wearing clothes?
- A Practical Guide to Training Restricted Boltzmann Machines
- AI Making Gradual Advance into Pharmaceutical/Biotech Industry
- Machine Learning Confronts the Elephant in the Room
- Understanding the ‘black box’ of artificial intelligence
- Google AI with Jeff Dean
- Microsoft introduces Azure service to automatically build AI models
- The "Python Machine Learning (2nd edition)" book code repository and info resource
- Why building your own Deep Learning Computer is 10x cheaper than AWS
- Machine learning - driven analytics: Key to digital transformation
- Tencent’s AI programs defeat Starcraft’s own AI
- SupplySide West Podcast: AI’s impact on product innovation
- Nvidia researchers develop AI system that generates synthetic scans of brain cancer
- Scientists Invent An AI That Can Smell 17 Diseases From Your Breath, Including Cancers
- New Artificial Intelligence System Know As ReLeaSE Can Design Drugs From Scratch
- You didn’t need deep learning to generate new molecules
- A machine learning survival kit for doctors
- SupplySide West Podcast: AI’s impact on product innovation
- Human-like A.I. will emerge in 5 to 10 years, say experts
- Why AI Applications Are A Boon For The Healthcare Future
- Getting Started with Cognitive Process Automation (CPA)
- Tiny soft robot with multilegs paves way for drugs delivery in human body
- Teaching machines to see illusions may help computer vision get smarter
- Human-level intelligence or animal-like abilities?
Quantum Computing and Other Non-Standard Approaches to Computing
- Facebook Aims To Make MRI Scans 10x Faster With NYU
- Microsoft Is Building The World’s First Scalable Quantum Computer
- The World’s First Practical Quantum Computer May Be Just Five Years Away
- Scientists discover new mechanism for information storage in one atom
Molecular Biology, Genetics, Gene Therapy and Regenerative Medicine
- The Ca2+ transient as a feedback sensor controlling cardiomyocyte ionic conductances in mouse populations
- A stretchy stick-on patch can take blood pressure readings from deep inside your body
- Acute HIIE elicits similar changes in human skeletal muscle mitochondrial H2O2 release, respiration and cell signaling as endurance exercise even with less work
- Life’s Code: Blockchain and the Future of Genomics
- Your Dreams May Come from These Two Genes
- Heredity Beyond the Gene
- Botched DNA Test Results Raise Tough Questions For Ancestry.com
- Genes are key to academic success, study shows
- Delivery of exogenous mitochondria via centrifugation enhances cellular metabolic function
- Eating in 10-hour Window can override Disease-Causing Genetic Defects, Nurture Health
- Molecule targets DNA donut to stop cancer cells dividing
- What happens when you knock out a gene?
- Where Will Evolution Take Humans Next?
- Heart attack: Substitute muscle thanks to stem cells
- Brain’s Dumped DNA May Lead to Stress, Depression
- Olfaction regulates organismal proteostasis and longevity via microRNA-dependent signaling
- Scientists Get the Green Light to Resurrect the Dead With Stem Cells
- Octopuses given mood drug 'ecstasy' reveal genetic link to evolution of social behaviors in humans
- Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes Are About to Fly Free in Africa
- Precision Medicine: Progress and Promise
- Skeletal stem cells found in humans for first time, promising new treatments for fractures and osteoporosis
- Humans Could Go Extinct, Thanks to Men
- The Y chromosome is disappearing. What does it mean for men?
- Eight of 10 people with cancer risk genes don't know it
- Scientists have moved one step closer to RNA editing, which could be the next stage of CRISPR
- Biophysical models reveal the relative importance of transporter proteins and impermeant anions in chloride homeostasis
- Scientists Wiped Out a Mosquito Population by Hacking Their DNA With CRISPR
- Forget Nature Versus Nurture. Nature Has Won
Neuroscience and Brain Research
- Why eight hours a night isn’t enough, according to a leading sleep scientist
- Plants’ Response To Being Eaten Is Very Similar To Our Response To Pain, Researchers Prove
- Neuralink: How The Human Brain Will Download Directly From a Computer
- How Brains of Doers Differ From Those of Procrastinators
- Stimulation of the Prefrontal Cortex Reduces Intentions to Commit Aggression
- Over past 20 years, percentage of children with ADHD nearly doubles
- Why Do We Hurt the Ones We Love? Insights From the Brain
- Scientists could rewire your brain to eliminate pain
- Science confirms that dogs can recognize a bad person
- Brainwaves synchronize to the speed of talking, influencing the way we hear words
- A summer camp for computational neuroscience
- With Neuralink, Elon Musk Promises Human-to-Human Telepathy. Don’t Believe It.
- DARPA’s New Brain Chip Enables Telepathic Control of Drone Swarms
- Excessive daytime sleepiness linked with brain protein involved in Alzheimer's disease
- Fundamentals of Neuroscience, Part 1: The Electrical Properties of the Neuron
- Magnetoencephalography and Translational Neuroscience in Psychiatry
- This is how the brain forgets on purpose
- Addiction and Recovery: The Brain’s Limbic System and 12-Step Programs
- How stress during early growth can shape neural circuits
- How to Naturally Stimulate Vagus Nerve to Stop Migraines, Inflammation and Depression
- 'Mindful people' feel less pain; MRI imaging pinpoints supporting brain activity
- Science Explains What Happens to Someone’s Brain From Complaining Every Day
- 'Mindful People' Feel Less Pain; MRI Imaging Pinpoints Supporting Brain Activity
- The Mirror Effect Of The Empath And Why Some People Instantly Dislike You
- The Alzheimer’s Hypothesis
- Immune Cells in the Brain Have Surprising Influence on Sexual Behavior
- Diving In to How Our Brains Process Information
- Scientists Bring A Severed Brain Back To Life, Sparking Ethical Debate
- A Nobel Laureate Asks What Makes a ‘Disordered Mind’
- The ‘Real You’ is a Myth
- Study finds people flock, or behave similarly to others, despite reasoning abilities
- Clearance of senescent glial cells prevents tau-dependent pathology and cognitive decline
- Your gut is directly connected to your brain, by a newly discovered neuron circuit
- New Research Shows How Brain-Computer Interaction Is Changing Cinema
- Scientists discover how to 'upload knowledge to your brain'
- In landmark study, doctors say test identifies people most likely to get Alzheimer's
- Study finds Latinos' increased dementia risk linked to lower education levels
- Caffeine Caused a Widespread Increase of Resting Brain Entropy
- A New Start-Up Wants to Transfer Your Consciousness to an Artificial Body So You Can Live Forever
- Link Between Hunger and Mood Identified
- No, We Can’t “Upload Knowledge To Your Brain”
- Robust spatial memory maps encoded by networks with transient connections
- Elon Musk: I'm about to announce a 'Neuralink' product that connects your brain to computers
- Army Scientists Discover Mathematics Of Brain Waves
- Neuroscience Confirms Your Subconscious Shapes Your Reality
- Myelin Facilitation of Whole Brain Neuroplasticity
- Senolytic Therapies Seem To Stop Alzheimer's Disease 'In Its Tracks'
- Thanks to Spinal Stimulation, Paralyzed Man Walks the Length of a Football Field
Psychiatry and Mental Health
- Gender 'nonconformity' takes mental toll on teens
- Bye, bye, Prozac! FDA approves Psilocybin for Depression Clinical Trials
- 3 out of 4 college students say they're stressed, many report suicidal thoughts: Study
- "Es gibt keine Schizophrenie"
- Brain Stimulation Approved for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
- Cold Water Swimming May Ease Depression
- Salmon Caught Near Seattle Are Full Of Cocaine And Antidepressants
Immunity and Infectious Diseases
- Household cleaning products may contribute to kids' overweight by altering their gut microbiota
- Essential Science: Developing a universal flu vaccine
- Why sepsis from a staph infection causes organ failure
- Seeing the Beautiful Intelligence of Microbes
- Probiotics are mostly useless and can actually hurt you
- I, holobiont. Are you and your microbes a community or a single entity?
Endocrinology and Hormones
- Vitamin D: a pseudo-vitamin for a pseudo-disease
- The Largest Ever Clinical Study on Vitamin D Shows We're Wrong About One of Its Main Benefits
- Is Your Built-In Alarm System Sabotaging Your Body? Meet Cortisol
- Evidence for a maximum “shelf-life” of oocytes in mammals suggests that human menopause may be an implication of meiotic arrest
- Neue Erklärung für Menopause
- Insulin prices could be much lower and drug makers would still make healthy profits
- Drug Synergy Slows Aging and Improves Healthspan through IGF and SREBP Lipid Signaling
Oncology and Cancer
- Here’s The Homemade Cannabis Oil Recipe That People Are Using As A Chemo Alternative
- Inflammatory foods are linked with higher colon cancer risk
- Nasal spray could deliver cancer drugs right to the brain
- Supramolecule joins the battle against cancer
- A new CAR-T is credited with a ‘surprising’ impact in tiny study of advanced liver cancer - raising hopes on solid tumors
- Israeli Research Could Advance Personalized Therapy for Aggressive Skin Cancer
Longevity and Aging
- The 5th Annual Aging And Drug Discovery Forum At The Basel Life Conference 2018
- Life Expectancies and Expectations
- Stunning anti-ageing breakthrough could see humans live to 150 and regenerate organs by 2020 'for the price of a coffee a day'
- Startups flock to turn young blood into an elixir of youth
- Google's genius futurist takes 100 pills a day to help him live forever - here's what some of them do
- Aubrey de Grey is working to cure aging whether you like it or not
- A controversial startup that charges $8,000 to fill your veins with young blood is opening its first clinic
Nutrition and Metabolism
- Flavonoids: The secret to health benefits of drinking black and green tea?
- Germany turns to Netherlands for more medical marijuana
- New Study Suggests Marijuana Prevents Alcohol-Related Liver Disease
- Nanotubes change the shape of water
- How Olive Oil and Sleep could Stave off Heart Attacks and Strokes: New study examines plasma protein’s role
- Changes in breakfast and dinner timings can reduce body fat
- No Amount of Alcohol Use Is Safe, Analysis of Studies Finds
- We tasted the first lab-grown sausage made without slaughtering any animals - here's what it was like
- Coke eyes cannabis-infused wellness drinks as market for CBD beverages expands
- Scientists Gave MDMA to Octopuses - and What Happened Was Profound
- Synthetic sandalwood found to prolong human hair growth
- What If: Smart Drugs Become as Common as Coffee?
- Malaysia in Talks to Become First in Asia to Allow Medical Pot
Miscellaneous
- China Is Overtaking the U.S. in Scientific Research
- ‘We will get regular body upgrades’: what will humans look like in 100 years?
- Press Conference: The Top Ten Emerging Technologies
- What If: 50% of Today's Jobs Disappear?
- Big Brother: China’s chilling dictatorship moves to introduce scorecards to control everyone
- The Kardashev Scale - Type I, I, III, IV & V Civilization
- The EU Can Still Be Saved From Its Internet-Wrecking Copyright Plan
- EU-Parlament stimmte für Uploadfilter und Linksteuer
- How we'll earn money in a future without jobs
- Why having a bad job is worse for your health than having no job at all
- EU takes first step in passing controversial copyright law that could ‘censor the internet’
- Liessmann: "Die Matura verliert dramatisch an Wert"
October 2018
In October, it was suggested that evolutionary algorithms might be the next big thing in artificial intelligence. Scientists supposedly created quantum artificial life for the first time ever. Also, they proved a quantum computing advantage over classical computing. The Nobel Prize was awarded for cancer immunotherapy.
Machine Learning, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
- Cellular automata as convolutional neural networks
- Watch Boston Dynamics’ humanoid robot leap up massive steps like it’s nothing
- This "Robotic Skin" can turn pretty much anything into a robot
- Thousands Of Swedes Are Inserting Microchips Under Their Skin
- Watch this humanoid robot install drywall
- That Atlas robot might be doing parkour now, but it still can’t chase you up the stairs
- China plans to be a world leader in Artificial Intelligence by 2030
- Google DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis: Three truths about AI
- Modeling Uncertainty with Hedged Insance Embedding
- Facebook launches PyTorch 1.0 with integrations for Google Cloud, AWS, and Azure Machine Learning
- AI-Human “Hive Mind” Diagnoses Pneumonia
- Simple Beginner’s guide to Reinforcement Learning & its implementation
- Using Unsupervised Learning to plan a vacation to Paris: Geo-location clustering
- AI Is Kicking Space Exploration Into Hyperdrive - Here’s How
- Keras vs. TensorFlow - Which one is better and which one should I learn?
- Why China will beat Silicon Valley at turning AI algorithms into sustainable businesses
- MIT researchers develop new chip design to take us closer to computers that work like human brains
- Advances in deep learning for drug discovery and biomarker development published in top journal
- Amazon's Secret AI Hiring Tool Reportedly 'Penalized' Resumes With the Word 'Women's'
- Top journal publishes special issue on deep learning for drug discovery and biomarker development
- Google’s AI Bots Invent Ridiculous New Legs to Scamper Through Obstacle Courses
- Insilico to present on advances in AI at the Healthcare Innovation Summit Africa 2018
- Amazon built an AI tool to hire people but had to shut it down because it was discriminating against women
- Evolutionary Algorithms: the Next Big Thing in Machine Learning?
- Genetic Algorithms + Neural Networks = Best of Both Worlds
- Reinforcement learning versus evolutionary computation: A survey on hybrid algorithms
- Evolutionary Algorithm - The Surprising and Incredibly Useful Alternative to Neural Networks
- Evolving simple programs for playing Atari games
- Zurück zur Evolution
- The Illusion of Perfection: The Disturbing Truth about AI Beauty
- Why losing your job to AI automation could be the best thing to happen
- Corti heart attack detection AI can now deploy on the edge with Scandinavian design
- MIT has just announced a $1 billion plan to create a new college for AI
- These AI-generated fortunes are just as mysterious as the real thing
- A pioneering scientist explains ‘deep learning’
- Learning recurrent dynamics in spiking networks
- The military made a robot that can eat organisms for fuel
- AI will impact 100% of jobs, professions, and industries, says IBM's Ginni Rometty
- Could robot leaders do better than our current politicians?
- Deep Learning Based Emotion Recognition with PyTorch and TensorFlow
- Word Embeddings and Document Vectors: Part 2. Order Reduction
- A new Amazon patent reveals Alexa could become emotionally intelligent
- Artificial intelligence better than physicists at designing quantum science experiments
- Bill Gates Says We Shouldn’t Panic About Artificial Intelligence
- Your next doctor’s appointment might be with an AI
- AI doctor could boost chance of survival for sepsis patients
- Artificial intelligence: Parking a car with only 12 neurons
- A.I. Is Helping Scientists Predict When and Where the Next Big Earthquake Will Be
- Police are using artificial intelligence to spot written lies
- Deep learning model as accurate as radiologists in identifying breast density
- AI Guru Andrew Ng on the Job Market of Tomorrow
- The First Novel Written by AI Is Here - and It’s as Weird as You’d Expect It to Be
- Insilico to present its latest advances in human aging biomarker development
- Robots May Soon Be Able to Smell Your Body Odor and Taste Your Food
- AI doctor could boost chance of survival for sepsis patients
- When Superintelligent AI Arrives, Will Religions Try to Convert It?
- The world's first humanless warehouse is run only by robots and is a model for the future
- Why Jupyter is data scientists’ computational notebook of choice
- Reinforcement Learning Will Be 2019's Biggest Trend In Data Science
- Improbotics: Bringing machine intelligence into improvised theatre
- Crowdsourced Natural Language or Speech Training - Use Cases and Explanation
- Balancing Machines and Human Employees When Adopting AI in the Enterprise
- Google is hosting a global contest to develop AI that’s beneficial for humanity
- Curiosity and Procrastination in Reinforcement Learning
- Artificial Intelligence Needs All Of Us | Rachel Thomas P.H.D. | TEDxSanFrancisco
Quantum Computing and Other Non-Standard Approaches to Computing
- Why Alibaba Is Betting Big on AI Chips and Quantum Computing
- Scientists Just Created Quantum Artificial Life For The First Time Ever
- Toward unhackable communication: Single particles of light could bring the 'quantum internet'
- First proof of quantum computer advantage
- There’s now proof that quantum computers can outperform classical machines
- Scientists Prove a Quantum Computing Advantage over Classical
- IBM just proved quantum computers can do things impossible for classical ones
- IBM finally proves that quantum systems are faster than classicals
- Europas letztes Computerwerk schließt
Molecular Biology, Genetics, Gene Therapy and Regenerative Medicine
- Incorporation of macrophages into engineered skeletal muscle enables enhanced muscle regeneration
- Genomics startup bets on blockchain for data sharing platform
- Manifold roles of ß-arrestins in GPCR signaling elucidated with siRNA and CRISPR/Cas9
- Scientists Have Turned Blood Cells Into Human Egg Cells For The First Time Ever
- Human 2.0 Is Coming Faster Than You Think. Will You Evolve With The Times?
- Your Environment Could Be Changing Your IQ on a Genetic Level, Study Finds
- The Human Cell Atlas is Biologists' Latest Grand Project
- Integrated systems analysis reveals conserved gene networks underlying response to spinal cord injury
- Japan Set to Allow Gene Editing in Human Embryos
- Study Challenges CRISPR Method for Making Conditional Knockout Mice
- Guided by CRISPR, Prenatal Gene Editing Shows Proof-of-Concept in Treating Congenital Disease before Birth
- Explore a Human Cell with an Interactive Website
- DNA of people with depression, trauma is biologically older than healthy individuals
- Engineers develop process to 3-D print cells to produce human tissue such as ligaments and tendons
- Rewriting reproduction: With stem cells and CRISPR, scientists breed mice with same-sex parents
- First Paralyzed Human Treated With Stem Cells Has Now Regained Use Of Arms And Hands
- Chinese Researchers Have Spawned Healthy Mice With 2 Biological Mothers And No Father
- Genome Editing und die Schere im Kopf
- Optogenetics enables real-time spatiotemporal control over spiral wave dynamics in an excitable cardiac system
- New insights into the cellular temporal response to proteostatic stress
- A new experimental platform facilitates assessment of the transcriptional and chromatin landscapes of aging yeast
- Computational modelling at the cellular level
- Study documents paternal transmission of epigenetic memory via sperm
- The Biotech Innovation That Will Transform Society Has Arrived (Hint: It's Not CRISPR)
- Massive Attack releasing DNA-encoded Mezzanine in spray paint can
- 3-D bioprinting technique could create artificial blood vessels, organ tissue
- De-Extinction Is Now a Thing—Starting With Passenger Pigeons
Neuroscience and Brain Research
- Studies show connection between diet, cognitive function
- Sleep deprivation can kill you - here's what sleeping less than seven hours per night does to your body and brain
- Journal retracts 16-year-old paper based on debunked autism-vaccine study
- The first “social network” of brains lets three people transmit thoughts to each other’s heads
- Realistic Modeling of Transcranial Current Stimulation: The Electric Field in the Brain
- Psychotropic polypharmacy is common in Alzheimer's disease
- Brain-to-brain network allows three people to share their thoughts
- In Our Brutal Modern World, Science Shows Our Brains Need Craft More Than Ever
- Brain-Machine Interfaces for Space Applications
- Thalamic Networks and the Mechanisms of Learning and Memory
- The Next Social Networks Could Be Brain-to-Brain
- Fluoride Officially Classified As A Neurotoxin In World’s Top Medical Journals
- Yes, We’re Becoming Less Smart. But What Can We Do About It?
- Periodontal disease bacteria may kick-start Alzheimer's
- JNCASR team fully restores long-term memory in mice with Alzheimer’s
- Possible Culprit of Fibromyalgia Found: Microglial Activation
- Children who exercise have more brain power, finds study
- Electrophysiological mechanisms of human memory consolidation
- Deconstructing the synapse
- Brain Meets Machine: The Art and Science of Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Plugging Into Your Brain
- New research says short people are angrier and more violent than tall people
- A long-overlooked brain region may be key to complex thought
- Rejection massively reduces IQ
- Nonoscillatory Phase Coding and Synchronization in the Bat Hippocampal Formation
- Dr. Sudhir Paul – Catalytic Antibodies for Amyloid Diseases
- New Sensor Tracks Dopamine in the Brain for More Than a Year
- Feeling young could signal a younger brain
- Your brain is like 100 billion mini-computers all working together
- Enhanced Dendritic Compartmentalization in Human Cortical Neurons
- Self-Control Center in the Brain Linked to Weight Loss
- Scientists find "evidence" of a multidimensional universe INSIDE our brain
- Understanding the building blocks for an electronic brain
- Researchers uncover new target of alcohol in the brain
- Drinking One Diet Drink Daily Can Triple Risk Of Dementia and Stroke
Psychiatry and Mental Health
- The Predictive Coding Account of Psychosis
- Study firms up diet and depression link
- Study finds orgasm face and pain face are not the same
- Incessant Christmas Music Really Can Be Bad For Our Mental Health, Experts Warn
- Engineered enzyme eliminates nicotine addiction in preclinical tests
- Five lifestyle changes that could boost your mood and mental health
- Herpes virus link to bipolar disorder and depression
Immunity and Infectious Diseases
- A Blue Pill Is Stopping HIV, World-First Study Shows
- A "vaccine" created from mushrooms could help save the bees
- CDC: 80,000 people died of flu last winter in U.S., highest death toll in 40 years
- Inflammation: the major regulator of muscle growth nobody talks about
- Artificial sweeteners have toxic effects on gut microbes
- Here's Why You Absolutely Need To Get A Flu Shot This Year, According To Experts
- Brown bear saliva kills a bacteria that current antibiotics are unable to treat
- Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and other billionaires are betting on a bacteria that could change the way we grow food
- Infectious bacteria hibernate to evade antibiotics
- Water samples from five areas of Karachi show presence of polio virus
- Rare Polio-Like Disease Hits Children In 16 States
- Redrawing the structure of an immune system protein
- Hand Dryers Spread Bacteria So Dramatically That Scientists Think They're A Public Health Threat
- One Drop Of Blood Can Reveal Almost Every Virus A Person Has Ever Had
- Erdbeeren aus Polen mit Hepatitis A infiziert
- Last Year, The Flu Put Him In A Coma. This Year He's Getting The Shot
- Trajectories of childhood immune development and respiratory health relevant to asthma and allergy
- More Reports of Children Being Paralyzed by Mysterious Disease
- Integrated culturing, modeling and transcriptomics uncovers complex interactions and emergent behavior in a three-species synthetic gut community
- An Incurable Disease Is On The Rise In California, And Scientists Say Climate Change Could Cause It To Spread To Much Of The Western US
- Belly Fat Has a Role to Play in Fighting Infections
- ‘Broadband’ Networks of Viruses May Help Bacteria Evolve Faster
- "Schrödinger's Bacterium" Could Be a Quantum Biology Milestone
Oncology and Cancer
- Nobel prize for medicine won by cancer researchers – as it happened
- Nobelpreis für Medizin 2018 geht an Krebsforscher Allison und Honjo
- Allison’s Nobel Prize beckons new era of immunotherapy
- Johns Hopkins to name research building in honor of Henrietta Lacks
- Große Familien schützen vor Krebs
- Cervical cancer set to be eliminated from Australia in global first
- Thermography Detects Breast Cancer Years Before Mammography Can
- Study: Almost half of new cancer patients lose their entire life savings
Longevity and Aging
- Is living forever going to suck?
- Researchers discover how to slow aging
- People Can Die From Giving up the Fight
- Fasting Molecule Delays Vascular Aging
- Adequate consumption of 'longevity' vitamins could prolong healthy aging, nutrition scientist says
- Life Expectancy
- Humans beings on the brink of IMMORTALITY, top scientist claims
- Identification of multidimensional regulators of aging
- Mouse Models to Disentangle the Hallmarks of Human Aging
- Researchers discover drug cocktail that increases lifespan
Nutrition and Metabolism
- Disney is now selling boozy push pops that contain more alcohol than a glass of wine
- New autonomous farm wants to produce food without human workers
- One-third of 'gluten-free' restaurant foods in U.S. are not, study finds
- This Tiny Device Could Provide Clean Water for 663 Million People
- High cholesterol may protect against infections and atherosclerosis
- Effect of Branched-Chain Amino Acid Supplementation on Recovery Following Acute Eccentric Exercise
November 2018
In November, the first genetically manipulated human babies were born. Also, "The Journal of Controversial Ideas" was founded.
Machine Learning, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
- This ‘Psychological' AI System Mimics Religious Violence to Understand It
- Why Google Just Tightened Its Grip On DeepMind
- A new robot decides how and when to transform to get the job done
- Artificial intelligence will make you smarter
- An AI physicist can derive the natural laws of imagined universes
- Should a self-driving car kill the baby or the grandma?
- An AI physicist can derive the natural laws of imagined universes
- Google says 'exponential' growth of AI is changing nature of compute
- Chinese AI will develop Chinese artificial consciousness
- Artificial intelligence will make you smarter
- 'How do neural nets learn?' A step by step explanation using the H2O Deep Learning algorithm
- Google offers money to universities to use AI in research
- Artificial intelligence to accelerate malaria research
- This new AI can write its own Code And Develop Apps
- Could AI make doctors obsolete? (No)
- Could AI make doctors obsolete? (Yes)
- Andrew Ng launches ‘AI for Everyone,’ a new Coursera program aimed at business professionals
- Microsoft’s president says we need to regulate facial recognition tech before ‘the year 2024 looks like the book “1984”’
- Harvard researchers want to school Congress about AI
- Why building your own Deep Learning Computer is 10x cheaper than AWS
- Passengers to face AI lie detector tests at EU airports
- The rare form of machine learning that can spot hackers who have already broken in
- Google parent to pull plug on bipedal robot development
- Improved Grading of Prostate Cancer Using Deep Learning
- Machine learning, meet quantum computing
- AI lie-detection system to be tested at EU airports
- Making sense of Microsoft's approach to AI
- An old-fashioned AI has won a Starcraft shootout
- One of the fathers of AI is worried about its future
- Artificial intelligence project to help bring the power of the sun to Earth is picked for first U.S. exascale system
Quantum Computing and Other Non-Standard Approaches to Computing
- IIT-Madras creates ‘Shakti’, India’s first microprocessor
- It’s alive! Scientists create ‘artificial life’ on a quantum computer
- 'Human brain' supercomputer with 1 million processors switched on for first time
Molecular Biology, Genetics, Gene Therapy and Regenerative Medicine
- Doctors Can Finally 3D Print Human Tissue, Ligaments and Tendons
- Scientists Have Confirmed a New DNA Structure Inside Human Cells
- In Silico Study Reveals How E64 Approaches, Binds to, and Inhibits Falcipain-2 of Plasmodium falciparum that Causes Malaria in Humans
- Human evolution is still happening – possibly faster than ever
- Designer Babies, and Their Babies: How AI and Genomics Will Impact Reproduction
- Genetic Engineering Will Change Everything Forever – CRISPR
- In Huge Shock, Mitochondrial DNA Can Be Inherited From Fathers
- Radical Findings Show Mitochondrial DNA Can Be Inherited From Dads
- No, Humans Are Probably Not All Descended From A Single Couple Who Lived 200,000 Years Ago
- Chinese researcher claims birth of first gene-edited babies - twin girls
- Chinese Scientist Claims To Have Created First Genetically Modified Babies
- CRISPR inventor Feng Zhang calls for moratorium on gene-edited babies
- Chinese scientists are creating CRISPR babies
- Forscher: Erste Gentech-Babys geboren
Neuroscience and Brain Research
- Neuroscientists Debate A Simple Question: How Does The Brain Store A Phone Number?
- Chronic pot use may have serious effects on the brain, experts say
- Harvard-trained brain researcher has a stroke and figures out the mystery to life
- Lifespan and sexual maturity depends on your brain more than your body
- Die unsichtbare Krankheit
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Erschöpfung als Dauerzustand
- The RCCX Hypothesis: Could It Help Explain Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS), Fibromyalgia and other Diseases?
- ME/CFS: Eine der letzten großen Krankheiten, die noch kaum erforscht ist
- Sleep deprivation can kill you
- Could your brain be a target for hackers?
- New parts of the brain become active after students learn physics
- New evidence pot may harm the teen brain
- Dopamine primes the brain for enhanced vigilance
- New Statistical Tool Helps Makes Sense of Brainwaves
- Bacteria Might Live In The Human Brain - And That Has Some Mind-Blowing Implications
- Your Blood Type May Help Protect You From Cognitive Decline
- How to help people with dementia retain the power of choice
- The Human Brain is a Time Traveler
- Cell study reveals how head injuries lead to serious brain diseases
- Neuroscientists Make a Case against Solitary Confinement
Psychiatry and Mental Health
- Scientists Just Identified Three Distinct Types of Depression, And 1 Appears to Be Drug-Resistant
- Can video games improve the health of older adults with schizophrenia?
- Identification of depression subtypes and relevant brain regions using a data-driven approach
Immunity and Infectious Diseases
- "Schrödinger's Bacterium" Could Be a Quantum Biology Milestone
- Cell Studio: Serious games for immunology
- Pathway to resolve allergic asthma is discovered
- Antibiotics eliminate senescent cells associated with ageing
Endocrinology and Hormones
Longevity and Aging
- Aging and drug discovery
- Poorest dying nearly 10 years younger than the rich in 'deeply worrying' trend for UK
Nutrition and Metabolism
- I just finished a 3 day (72 hour) water fast. It was brutal
- A Super-Spicy Plant Could Help End the Opioid Crisis
- Coffee is bitter but we still drink it, why?
Miscellaneous
- What Does It Mean to Be Self-Actualized in the 21st Century?
- A Very Controversial Idea
- Here Comes ‘The Journal of Controversial Ideas.’ Cue the Outcry.
December 2018
In December, the AlphaZero AI system made peak performances in the chess game. The physical source of depression was discovered.
Machine Learning, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
- Brain Wave Sensing Robots Can Now Serve as Extensions of the Human Body
- Capturing the brain’s learning and recall motor in silicon
- Artificial Intelligence Graduate Certificate
- Durchbruch auf dem Weg zur universellen Lernmaschine
- AlphaZero: Shedding new light on the grand games of chess, shogi and Go
- "Perzeptron": einfaches neuronales Netz mittels Quantencomputer
- UK doctors sceptical that AI could replace them: Study
- How China Is Dominating Artificial Intelligence
- The case for taking AI seriously as a threat to humanity
- Educating the Wise Cyborgs of the Future
- The Next Leap: How A.I. will change the 3D industry - Andrew Price
- Best resources for Deep learners, Machine learning, artificial intelligence, programming, interviews, jobs...
- 10 More Must-See Free Courses for Machine Learning and Data Science
- The role of over-parametrization in generalization of neural networks
- This Is What the Fourth Industrial Revolution Looks Like
- Artificial intelligence system learns to diagnose, classify intracranial hemorrhage
- 2018 Robot Roundup
Quantum Computing and Other Non-Standard Approaches to Computing
- Milestone Experiment Proves Quantum Communication Really Is Faster
- Congress passes $1.2 billion quantum computing bill
- Inside the Raspberry Pi
- Hardware-software co-design approach could make neural networks less power hungry
- The man turning China into a quantum superpower
- A GAMEBOY supercomputer
- The Feynman-Kitaev computer's clock: bias, gaps, idling and pulse tuning
- Amoeba finds approximate solutions to NP-hard problem in linear time
- Study Confirms: Global Quantum Internet Really Is Possible
- Harnessing the power of 'spin orbit' coupling in silicon: Scaling up quantum computation
Molecular Biology, Genetics, Gene Therapy and Regenerative Medicine
- Lab-Grown Mini Kidneys 'Go Rogue,' Sprout Brain and Muscle Cells
- Biohacker injects himself with DNA sequence made from Bible and Koran verses
- Down Syndrome Is Nearly Eliminated In Iceland And The Internet Has Feelings
- 2018 Breakthrough of the Year - Development cell by cell
- Durchbruch 2018: Der Blick in die Zelle
- Scientists Say They Can Recreate Living Dinosaurs Within the Next Five Years
- The Chinese scientist who claims he made CRISPR babies is under investigation
- Der chinesische Gene-Editing-Tabubrecher ist untergetaucht oder isoliert worden
- China: Erste Kinder angeblich geboren, die mit Gene Editing behandelt wurden
- Scientists Inject Human Cells Into Pig Embryo To Create Human-Pig Hybrid
- After the CRISPR babies, what next?
- Mehrheit gegen Genmanipulation am Menschen
- Ein Leben ohne Krankheiten – sollte Genmanipulation von Menschen endlich legal werden?
- In the Nature–Nurture War, Nature Wins
- ÖAW distanziert sich von „Human Enhancement“
- Red-haired people have these genetic superpowers, say scientists
- NIH-developed test detects protein associated with Alzheimer’s and CTE
- 25 Genes Responsible for Extending Human Lifespan Have Been Identified
- Nanotweezers allow for extraction of single molecules from living cells
- Top 10 stories of 2018: Climate change, gene-edited babies, hidden craters and more
- Identification of Embryonic Neural Plate Border Stem Cells and Their Generation by Direct Reprogramming from Adult Human Blood Cells
- Tiroler züchten aus Blut Stammzellen
- Parrot Genomes Provide Insights Into Evolution Of Longevity And Cognition
- Regrowing damaged nerves hinges on shutting down key genes
- New, rapid and robust method for single cell chromatin accessibility profiling
- Human blood cells can be directly reprogrammed into neural stem cells
- Das Dumme mit den Genen
- ‘Alternative Limb Project’ Showcases the Creative Possibilities of Prosthetics
- @rebornbionics wants you to rethink the science behind bionic limbs
- Researchers use 'blacklist' computing concept as novel way to streamline genetic analysis
- Caltech scientists used DNA to play the world’s tiniest game of tic-tac-toe
Neuroscience and Brain Research
- Body Atlas Reveals Where We Feel Happiness and Shame
- A Neuroscientist Explains How He Found Out Meth Is Almost Identical to Adderall
- Reached Via a Mind-Reading Device, Deeply Paralyzed Patients Say They Want to Live
- Neandertal Introgression Sheds Light on Modern Human Endocranial Globularity
- Dänischer Arzt warnt: Veganes Essen kann zu geistiger Behinderung führen
- Breakthrough ultrasound treatment to reverse dementia moves to human trials
- A review of classification algorithms for EEG-based brain–computer interfaces: a 10 year update
- GRK5 – A Functional Bridge Between Cardiovascular and Neurodegenerative Disorders
- Study Reveals What May Prevent Remyelination
- Possible Culprit of Fibromyalgia Found: Microglial Activation
- Top 10 Neuroscience News Stories of 2018
- Neural stem cells grown from blood could revolutionize medicine
- Stem cell-derived neurons stop seizures, improve cognitive function
- Is Alzheimer's Infectious? Intriguing Findings From New Mouse Study
- Scots scientists spark hopes for breakthrough in fight against Parkinson's disease
- Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS): Hope for stubborn depression
- Can Cats and Dogs See "Spirits"? Science Confirms They Can See Frequencies We Can't
- Eating Pizza Triggers Opioids in Your Brain
- New Research Suggests That Food Really Does Affect How We Think
- Experimental Alzheimer's drug improves memory in mice
- The Neurogenesis Debate
- Brainwaves suppress obvious ideas to help us think more creatively
- Motor Neuroprostheses
- Scientists may be on their way to growing human brains
- Bees can count with just four nerve cells in their brains
- Effects of High-Definition Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (HD-tDCS) of the Intraparietal Sulcus and Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex
- Your stroke risk depends on where you live!
- Researchers design new brain implant
- Nutrients in Blood Linked to Better Cognition and Brain Connectivity in Older Adults
- What to eat for brain health as you age
- Creating a physical map of the brain
- Headset Allows You To Control Lights With Your Brain
- Your Brain Is Constantly Searching for Problems to Fix
- Isaac Asimov Asks, “How Do People Get New Ideas?”
- Liron Gino designs Vibeat devices for deaf people to experience music
- Explaining the power of curiosity - to your brain, hunger for knowledge is much the same as hunger for food
- Five Toxic Personalities Successful People Avoid
- Largest Brain Study of 62,454 Scans Identifies Drivers of Brain Aging
- Neuroscientist Discovers Hidden Region in the Human Brain
- Jeden Tag ein paar Minuten in völliger Stille zu verbringen, stimuliert die Produktion neuer Gehirnzellen
- This Video on The Scale of Black Holes Will Crush Your Poor, Human Brain Forever
- A Nobel Prize-winning psychologist says most people don’t really want to be happy
Psychiatry and Mental Health
- Immigrants have fewer mental disorders than U.S.-born Americans. Why?
- Scientists Find A Brain Circuit That Could Explain Seasonal Depression
- Psilocybin for the Masses: Oregon Considering Legalizing Mushrooms
- People with schizophrenia experience emotion differently from others, 'body maps' show
- Depression's physical source discovered; potential for new treatments
Immunity and Infectious Diseases
- Combatting antimicrobial resistance
- Immune System Affects and Controls Social Behavior
- Der Keuchhusten kehrt zurück
- Liver failure in viral hepatitis attributable to compromised blood supply
Endocrinology and Hormones
- What is the role of metabolic hormones in taste buds of the tongue
- Millions left behind as diabetes drives surge in insulin demand
- Glands in Endocrine System and Mechanism of Hormone Action
Oncology and Cancer
- Krebs-Chirurg Jakesz: „Es ist auch der Glaube, der heilt“
- Gold nanoparticles could destroy prostate cancer
- 'Revolutionary' cancer drug using genetically modified cells approved
Longevity and Aging
- Low-dose radiation from A-bombs elongated lifespan and reduced cancer mortality relative to un-irradiated individuals
- Identifying Molecular Markers of Aging
- There will be no old people – anti-aging SophieCo
Nutrition and Metabolism
- New research suggests you can die by simply giving up your will to live
- Sojaexporte aus den USA nach China eingebrochen
- A physician’s warning on the keto diet
- Cholesterol-lowering drugs reduce brown adipose tissue
- The fat-burning heart-rate zone is a myth: How exercise and weight loss really work
- Is There an Optimal Diet for Humans?
- 13 Foods You Should Never Put in a Slow Cooker
- The complex code for tasting salt
- Gel made from birch bark reduces skin scarring from cuts and burns
- Hartinger-Klein will weniger Salz und Zucker in Lebensmitteln
- NASA lab confirms DNA sugar can be made in space, adding evidence that ‘life’ could be all over the universe
- Alle Esssünden zu Weihnachten „erlaubt“
- 10 behaviors for healthy weight loss
- World’s First Edible Six-Pack Rings Feed Marine Animals Instead of Strangling Them
- High blood sugar during pregnancy is associated with congenital heart defects
- The Case for a Low-Carb Diet Is Stronger Than Ever
- The year vegan junk food went mainstream
Miscellaneous
- The Year in Biology
- Of autonomous duck taxis and a precise Mars landing
- If This Life Is A Video Game, What Are The Winning Rules?
- 2018 Breakthrough of the Year
- Sophia Robot Creator: We'll Achieve Singularity in Five to 10 years
- Is Life A Recursive Video Game?
- 90% of all the scientists that ever lived are alive today
Conclusions
The highlights of this year came in the two last months: the first genetic manipulation of human babies by He Jiankui and the new AI system AlphaGoZero with its great performance in chess. Also, the discovery of a new DNA shape was a sensation.
All in all, 2018 was an interesting year. See you in 2019!