UCLA discovers first stroke rehabilitation drug to repair brain damage (2025)(stemcell.ucla.edu)

425 points by bookofjoe 5 months ago | 86 comments

UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center news article announcing discovery of a drug that mimics rehabilitation effects to repair brain damage after stroke.

Unlocking the secrets of myelin repair(neuroscience.stanford.edu)

89 points by kryster 2 years ago | 25 comments

We’re closer to ‘engineering’ blood vessels(pursuit.unimelb.edu.au)

161 points by geox 3 years ago | 83 comments

What Can a Cell Remember?(quantamagazine.org)

69 points by chapulin 1 year ago | 10 comments

Genetic code enables zebrafish to mend damaged organs(caltech.edu)

98 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 11 comments

Alzheimer’s disease can be reversed in animal models? Study(case.edu)

457 points by thunderbong 10 months ago | 111 comments

Case Western Reserve University news release on a study reporting that Alzheimer's disease was reversed, with full neurological recovery, in animal models.

LLMs use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge(news.mit.edu)

336 points by CharlesW 2 years ago | 121 comments

MIT News article on research showing LLMs often retrieve stored facts via simple linear functions, and a technique to probe what a model knows about subjects.

Human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world(news.ucsc.edu)

414 points by XzetaU8 11 months ago | 284 comments

UC Santa Cruz news article reporting research suggesting early developing human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world.

First in-utero stem cell therapy for fetal spina bifida repair is safe: study(health.ucdavis.edu)

337 points by gmays 7 months ago | 64 comments

UC Davis Health news article reporting a study finding that the first in-utero stem cell therapy for fetal spina bifida repair is safe.

Mini brain organoids ‘reading’ Braille key step towards biohybrid computing(frontiersin.org)

36 points by CharlesW 4 days ago | 48 comments

Frontiers news article on a Bristol study where brain organoids on electrode arrays relayed tactile Braille signals decodable by an SVM, with three organoids reaching 83% accuracy.

AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain(davidepiffer.com)

524 points by rzk 2 months ago | 452 comments

A Substack essay by Davide Piffer arguing that AI's edge over mathematicians comes from a vast symbolic working memory rather than superior reasoning.

MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline(publichealthpolicyjournal.com)

438 points by cainxinth 1 year ago | 432 comments

Article reporting on an MIT study claiming that using AI tools like ChatGPT alters brain activity and leads to cognitive decline.