CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — By giving artificial intelligence simple associative learning rules based on the brain circuits that allow a sea slug to forage — and augmenting it with better episodic memory, like...
Researchers unearth exercise secrets from a biomolecular soup of synthetic innervated muscle tissue.
It’s no secret that regular exercise is great for the body ...
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BBC News (London, March 5) – Poison dart frogs appear to make a dancing movement with their back toes, not unlike tap dancing. Illinois researchers discovered the frogs tapped far more when...
LabRoots (Yorba Linda, Calif., March 5) – Illinois researchers have developed a novel approach to mapping brain behavior when someone is sick or healthy. “If you look at the brain chemically, it’s...
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To address a longstanding hurdle in biomedical research, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers have developed a new nanoscale...
With help from the Champaign Public Library, Beckman researchers led by Professor Liz Stine-Morrow demonstrated that regular, engaged leisure reading can...
Beckman researchers Aron Barbey and Evan Anderson found that taking into account the features of the whole brain rather than focusing on individual regions or networks allows the...
Mark Hauber, a professor of evolution, ecology, and environment, is one of 14 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty members to be elected 2021 fellows of the American Association for the...
Cockatiels, one of the world’s most favored pet parrots, don’t just masterfully mimic. In fact, a new study shows that they can spontaneously join in a song—much like humans do—drawing us closer to...
Over a decade ago, behavioral ecologist Diane Colombelli-Négrel was wiring superb fairy wrens’ nests to record the birds’ sounds when she noticed something odd. Mother fairy wrens sang while...
Neuroscience faculty at the Beckman Institute have developed a computational strategy that enables faster chemical and spatial characterization of tissues:...
This Inverse article quotes University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Advanced Study Professor in Physics, Nigel Goldenfeld who collaborated with NSP faculty and alumni on the study, "Individual...
Two grants will fund interdisciplinary research at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, including a look at how neurons and muscle cells communicate with each other and also to...
Cowbirds outsource parenting to other species, but an innate password tells their children to copy cowbird songs.
Now, a new paper describes how the cowbird chicks may learn to recognize and sing...
A new study, co-authored by Northeastern University professor Charles Hillman and Naiman Khan at the University of Illinois, found that drinking water and staying hydrated increased children’s...
Jonathan Sweedler was recently voted the 2019 winner of CASSS Award for Outstanding Achievements in Separation Science. His contributions to capillary electrophoresis, detection...
Elizabeth A.L. Stine-Morrow, Ilber E. Manavbasi, Shukhan Ng, Giavanna S. McCall, Aron K. Barbey, Daniel G. Morrow,
"Looking for transfer in all the wrong places: How...
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Imaging-based spatial transcriptomics technologies such as MERFISH offer snapshots of cellular processes in unprecedented detail, but new analytic tools are needed to realize their full...
The Han Lab develops and applies state-of-the-art imaging-based spatial omics technologies to study how the brain encodes information. Spatial omics characterizes the molecular profile of the brain...
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The prevalence of orthopedic implants is increasing with an aging population. These patients are vulnerable to risks from periprosthetic infections and instrument failures. Here, we present...
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Three adult littermates were diagnosed with Brucella canis, two of which were diagnosed with discospondylitis. The first littermate, a 2-year-old spayed-female Labrador...
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The bearded dragon (Pogona vitticeps) has become a popular companion lizard, and as such, clients have increasingly come to expect the application of advanced diagnostic and...
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Current treatment options for feline epilepsy are limited to medications that require administration of multiple doses per day or administration of a capsule or large tablet. Expanding the...
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The cellular basis of age-related impairments of hippocampal function is not fully understood. In order to evaluate the role of somatostatin-positive (Sst+) interneurons in the dentate...
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Research indicates that eye movements can reveal expressions of memory for previously studied relationships. Specifically, eye movements are disproportionately drawn to test items that were...
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Contextual information plays a critical role in directed forgetting (DF) of lists of items, whereas DF of individual items has been primarily associated with item-level processing. This...