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[A] curious article popped up this morning regarding a telephone conversation with a computer claiming to be human. Apparently, Time Magazine bureau chief Michael Scherer put this entity to a series of ‘tests’ to prove whether or not the caller was really a human female called ‘Samantha West’: After askingContinue Reading

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[O]ptogenetics is a rising star within the developing field of neurology. What is optogenetics? Simply put, it’s physics meets biology. In this case, it’s the insertion of a gene that encodes for a light-sensitive protein into animal neurons to ‘turn on’ certain cell activity. Think of the new protein as aContinue Reading