ChanZuckerberg BioEngineering Conference
September 30-October 1, 2024 CZ Biohub Chicago hosted the first-ever Chicago BioEngineering Conference – two days of learning, networking, and...
Brains & Biometrics
CheekAge mouth swab: a new mortality calculator
Outperforms blood-based epigenetic clocksIn a recent study, Shokhirev and his team applied statistical programming to evaluate how effectively CheekAge predicted...
Beyond Neuralink: Meet the other companies developing brain-computer interfaces
Companies like Synchron, Paradromics, and Precision Neuroscience are also racing to develop brain implantsBy Cassandra WillyardApril 19, 2024… Neuralink’s announcement...
Living Skin on Robots
Cultured skin, as they put it, can heal itself, carry biological sensors like our own to provide sensitive touch, and...
Preschool Social and Math Games
Math-trained children showed immediate gains on symbolic mathematical skills but displayed no advantage in subsequent learning of the language and...
Beyond neural data: Cognitive biometrics and mental privacy
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627324006524The paper by Patrick Magee , Marcello Ienca , and Nita Farahany highlights how AI-powered devices (e.g., wearables, BCI’s) process a new class of data called ‘cognitive...
Brain-reading tech is coming. The law is not ready to protect us.
In the era of neurocapitalism, your brain needs new rights.by Sigal SamuelUpdated Dec 20, 2019 at 11:35 AM ESTFacebook and Elon Musk’s...
BrainBridge – Head Transplant Machine
Neuroscience startup BrainBridge just introduced a new concept for an AI-driven robotic system capable of performing head transplants — aiming to help...
ROBERT J. WHITE : head transplant pioneer
Robert J. White is the groundbreaking surgeon who in the mid-1970s- against all odds- pioneered the monkey head transplant. He’s...
1st-ever cat cap that measures brain activity without sedation
In a first, veterinary scientists have successfully scanned the brains of cats in a conscious state.To achieve this, the Université...