Researchers get neurons and silicon talking
...ions are potentially decades away, but in the much nearer term the new technology could enable very advanced and sophisticated drug screening systems for the pharmaceutical industry. "Pharmaceutical companies could use the chip to test the effect of drugs on neurons, to quickly discover promising avenues o...Researchers seek to discover what really happens when a virus enters the body
...on, which is brighter in the center and dissipates nearer the edges of the dish for each sub-image. To compensate for this artifact or noise, Bell's lab has developed "a method to remove the grid created by assembling the montage of sub-images. Our method ?based on a model we developed that reflects the p...