Tag Archive | neurobiology
LabBook May 10, 2013
The patient who couldn’t swallow, lung transplants, neuroprosthetics and more in this week’s LabBook.
Building the Sense of Touch Into Prosthetic Arms
Prosthetic arms are more sophisticated than ever, and scientists here at UChicago are working on giving them a lifelike sense of touch that can be felt in the brain.
LabBook April 12, 2013
Prostate cancer screening, songbirds, startups and more in this week’s LabBook.
LabBook January 25, 2013
Welcome to LabBook, our weekly roundup of University of Chicago Medicine & Biological Sciences research news from around campus and the internet. Each Friday, LabBook will recap the week on the blog, link to news stories about our faculty and studies, and briefly summarize a handful of recent publications by our researchers. PAST TWO WEEKS […]
Sequencing the Genome of the Ocean’s Weirdest Creatures
Cephalopods—ocean-dwelling mollusks such as the octopus, squid, cuttlefish, and Nautilus—are ancient and complex creatures. They evoke our primal fascination with mysterious creatures of the sea, with weird and wonderful features like prehensile arms that can regenerate when amputated, huge, vertebrate-like eyes, jet-propulsion systems to help swim by squirting water, and special organs to change skin […]
How Our Sense of Touch is a Lot Like the Way We Hear
When you walk into a darkened room, your first instinct is to feel around for a light switch. You slide your hand along the wall, feeling the transition from the doorframe to the painted drywall, and then up and down until you find the metal or plastic plate of the switch. During the process you […]
LabBook October 5, 2012
Welcome to LabBook, our weekly roundup of University of Chicago Medicine & Biological Sciences research news from around campus and the world wide web. Each Friday, LabBook will recap the week on the blog, link to news stories about our faculty and studies, and briefly summarize a handful of recent publications by our researchers. THIS […]
A New Dial on the Neuronal Mixing Board
On the cartoon version of a neuron, the dendrites are the bad hair day, the tentacles that sprout in every direction from the cell body or soma. Surrounding neurons make their connections onto these projections, releasing neurotransmitters that travel across the synapse to the receiving dendrites where they produce excitation or inhibition. Thousands of these […]
