Science can engineer babies, but we’re not ready
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Optogenetics: Illuminating the mysteries of the brain
Despite the brain’s centrality to everything that makes being human interesting, we know fairly little about how the brain works at a detailed circuit level.
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Constructing Reality: a Conversation with Mayank Mehta
The most recent Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was shared among John O’Keefe, May-Britt Moser, and Edvard Moser for their work on how animals know where in the world they are, and what cells in the brain contribute to this inner map. However, their longstanding views of how these neurons work are not the whole story.
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