by Manel Llado, IMBA - Institut für Molekulare Biotechnologie der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften GmbH The brain resembles a road network: Like country roads, small connections link neighboring nerve cells, while, like highways, thick nerve bundles connect different...

A team of researchers have built a vision implant with tiny electrodes the size of a neuron, seeking to help blind people see again. The development of vision implants first emerged in the 1990s. The technology targets patients suffering from damage to the eye, but whose visual cortex— the...

by Nanyang Technological University Glioblastoma is an often fatal form of brain cancer, with only 5% of patients surviving beyond five years. The cancer is difficult to treat and almost always becomes resistant to treatment. As a result, recurrence of glioblastoma is practically...