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Tuesday March 19, 2013 Daily edition   News and Blog Headlines Whole brain cellular-level activity mapping once a second Seeing a chemical reaction in real time DNA tool kit goes live online Scientists transplant neural stem cells from a monkey’s skin into its brain Latest News Whole brain cellular-level activity mapping once a second March 19, 2013   Neuroscientists at Howard Hughes Medical Institute have mapped the activity of nearly all the neurons in a vertebrate brain at cellular resolution, with signficant implications for neuroscience research and projects like the proposed Brain Activity Map (BAM). The researchers used high-speed light sheet microscopy to image the activity of 80% of the neurons in the … more… Seeing a chemical reaction in real time March 19, 2013   The ultrafast, ultrabright X-ray pulses of the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) have enabled unprecedented views of a catalyst in action, an important step in the effort to develop cleaner and more efficient energy sources. Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory used LCLS, together with computerized simulations, to reveal … more… DNA tool kit goes live online March 19, 2013   BIOFAB, based in Emery­ville, California, which calls itself  “the world’s first biological design-build facility,” has announced availability of DNA sequences that allow precise control of gene activity in the bacterium Escherichia coli, Nature News reports. Launched in 2009 with a US$1.4-million grant from the National Science Foundation, BIOFAB aims to advance synthetic biology by creating … more… Scientists transplant neural stem cells from a monkey’s skin into its brain March 19, 2013 University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists have transplanted neural cells derived from stem cells from a monkey’s skin into its brain and watched the cells develop into several types of mature brain cells. After six months, the cells looked entirely normal, and were only detectable because they initially were tagged with a fluorescent protein. The transplanted cells … more… New EVENTS   Howard Bloom’s God Problem Tour Dates: Mar 23 – Apr 4, 2013 Location: , United States more...   E2 Conference Dates: Jun 17 – 19, 2013 Location: Boston, Massachusetts more...   GCA 2013 International Conference on Grid & Cloud Computing and Applications Dates: Jul 22 – 25, 2013 Location: Las Vegas, Nevada more...   GEM 2013 International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Methods Dates: Jul 22 – 25, 2013 Location: Las Vegas, Nevada more...   The 2013 International Conference on Web Information Systems and Mining (WISM’13) Dates: Aug 13 – 15, 2013 Location: Guilin, China more... New VIDEOS   Avian-inspired grasping for quadrotor micro aerial vehicles Latest Kurzweil Collection posts Audiobook review: How to Create a Mind   Source: AudioFile — March 2013 The futurist and computer pioneer Ray Kurzweil says that understanding how human brains process information will allow powerful computers to think like we do and address some of humankind’s greatest challenges. He explains higher-level thinking as being organized in pattern-recognizing neuron clusters that are wired together in hierarchical layers in the cortex. These layers use … more… Read full article here Visit KurzweilAI.net You are currently subscribed to the KurzweilAI.net newsletter as *|EMAIL|* To unsubscribe, please click here. To change your email preferences, please click here. *|LIST:ADDRESS|*.