Two researchers at the Göttingen Campus have been awarded ERC Starting Grants by the European Research Council (ERC). Ecologist Dr Anggi Hapsari from the University of Göttingen receives funding of around two million euros for her project "SaLtedPeat: Potential impact of sea level rise related salinization on lowland tropical coastal peatlands". Neuroscientist Dr Oliver Barnsted from the European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen (ENI-G) receives funding of around 1.5 million euros for his project “LearnMamBo: Neuronal dynamics of learning and memory in the mammillary body“. Both projects will run for five years.

 

The team of Riccardo Levato at UMC Utrecht and Utrecht University is now taking an important step toward printing implantable tissues. Using computer vision, a branch of artificial intelligence (AI), they’ve developed a 3D printer that doesn’t just print, it also sees and even co-designs. Their innovation was published today in Nature. With this innovation, they tackle one of the biggest challenges in 3D bioprinting: improving both the survival and functionality of cells in printed living tissue. But how exactly does that work?

Technology developed at Case Western Reserve University can restore a sense of touch that makes a prosthetic hand feel like a part of one’s own body instead of feeling artificial and disconnected.

Now this technology will take a major step toward commercialization: in a new clinical trial, 12 people with upper limb amputation will be recruited to compare standard prosthetic arms and hands to the sensory-enabled neural-controlled prostheses developed at the university since 2015.

Researchers at Case Western Reserve and the Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center (Cleveland VA) have received a $9.9 million award from the U.S. Department of Defense Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program for the trial.

Magnetic resonance imaging often yields inconsistent results when assessing the brain’s structural characteristics in children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). To address this, scientists from Japan have used a harmonization method called traveling-subject (TS) to reduce measurement bias in brain imaging datasets from multiple sites. The TS harmonized datasets showed significant reductions in measurement bias and revealed apparent volumetric changes in specific brain regions, indicating promise for developing a more robust diagnosis for ADHD.

An ultrasound device that can precisely stimulate areas deep in the brain without surgery has been developed by researchers from UCL and the University of Oxford, opening up new possibilities for neurological research and treatment of disorders such as Parkinson’s disease and depression.