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- Optogenetic toolkit goes multicolor: Seeing brain functions with light-sensitive proteins
- Seven new genetic regions linked to type 2 diabetes
- Cochlear implant with no exterior hardware can be wirelessly recharged
- Breakthrough approach to quickly identify new drug candidates from genome sequence
| Optogenetic toolkit goes multicolor: Seeing brain functions with light-sensitive proteins Posted: 09 Feb 2014 12:24 PM PST Researchers have found new light-sensitive proteins that allow scientists to study how multiple sets of neurons interact with each other.  |
| Seven new genetic regions linked to type 2 diabetes Posted: 09 Feb 2014 12:24 PM PST Seven new genetic regions associated with type 2 diabetes have been identified in the largest study to date of the genetic basis of the disease. DNA data was brought together from more than 48,000 patients and 139,000 healthy controls from four different ethnic groups.  |
| Cochlear implant with no exterior hardware can be wirelessly recharged Posted: 09 Feb 2014 12:24 PM PST Cochlear implants -- medical devices that electrically stimulate the auditory nerve -- have granted at least limited hearing to hundreds of thousands of people worldwide who otherwise would be totally deaf. Existing versions of the device, however, require that a disk-shaped transmitter about an inch in diameter be affixed to the skull, with a wire snaking down to a joint microphone and power source that looks like an oversized hearing aid around the patient's ear. Researchers have now developed a new, low-power signal-processing chip that could lead to a cochlear implant that requires no external hardware.  |
| Breakthrough approach to quickly identify new drug candidates from genome sequence Posted: 09 Feb 2014 12:23 PM PST In research that could ultimately lead to many new medicines, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have developed a potentially general approach to design drugs from genome sequence.  |
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