• n  electronic equipment consisting of a system of circuits

News & Articles

• Scientists identify neurons that control feeding behavior in Drosophila
  Scientists have developed a novel transgenic system which allows them to remotely activate individual brain cells in the model organism Drosophila using ambient temperature. This powerful new tool for identifying and characterizing neural circuitry has lead to the identification of a pair of neurons-– now called Fdg neurons-- in the fruit fly that decide when to eat and initiate the subsequent ...
  June 14, 2013 - Science Daily
• Scientists at UMass Medical School identify neurons that control feeding behavior in Drosophila
  ( University of Massachusetts Medical School ) Scientists at UMass Medical School have developed a novel transgenic system which allows them to remotely activate individual brain cells in the model organism Drosophila using ambient temperature. This powerful new tool for identifying and characterizing neural circuitry has lead to the identification of a pair of neurons-- now called Fdg neurons ...
  June 14, 2013 - EurekAlert!

Quotes

• Nicholas Carr in Washington Post
  As Carr writes, "I can feel it too. Over the last few years I've had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. My mind isn't going -- so far as I...
• Richard Edlund in San Francisco Chronicle
  Well, it was my high dive into the future,noted Edlund. "Interestingly, we used space-race technology, the solid-state circuitry, to develop the motion-control equipment that we were using for the space movie. So, NASA got us into space,...
• Thomas Okarma in Reuters
  In addition to the remyelinating activity as previously reported, GRNOPC1 produces growth factors that can improve the survival and extension of neuronal circuitry in the spinal cord,said Thomas Okarma, Geron's chief executive officer.