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As Edgar Morin celebrates his 104th birthday, Adam Bate examines why it is that a French philosopher has influenced the ...

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Cancer can be reversed. Yes, you heard it right. In a remarkable breakthrough, a team of scientists from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology ...

Professor Levin directs both the Allen Discovery Center and the Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology at Tufts University in Massachusetts. His lab is unusual for the field of biology, a ...

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This useful study presents a biologically realistic, large-scale cortical model of the rat's non-barrel somatosensory cortex, investigating synaptic plasticity of excitatory connections under varying ...