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Mar 31, 2017
Popular Science - Transplanting a whole eyeball is tough.
Nautilus - Consciousness is a thriving industry. It’s not just the meditation retreats and ayahuasca shamans.
Mar 30, 2017
The Verge - At first blush, a blind tadpole that’s had an eyeball grafted onto its tail sounds like a creature from a fairy tale.
New Scientist - Blind tadpoles have learned to see again, using eyes implanted on their tails.
Fierce Biotech - What can blind tadpoles teach us about improving organ transplants, correcting birth defects and curing cancer?
Mar 16, 2017
Seeker - After uncovering three giant neurons, scientists could be one step closer to pinpointing where consciousness lives in the brain.
Mar 13, 2017
The Conversation - When I was studying for my PhD at the University of California at Berkeley, I spent an awful lot of my weekends asking teenagers to...
Mar 2, 2017
Nature - 3D reconstructions show a 'crown of thorns' shape stemming from a region linked to consciousness.
Mar 1, 2017
Engineering News-Record - The facility, which houses the Allen Institute for Brain Science, the Allen Institute for Cell Science and Paul G. Allen...
Feb 27, 2017
Quartz - Nobody yet understands how a collection of mushy cells in the brain gives rise to the brilliance of consciousness seen in higher-order...
