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News - Continued research into biotics, the meshing of technology and biology, took another robo-step forward this week at the University of Calgary. Research led by Dr. Naweed Syed, cell biology and anatomy department head in the faculty of medicine, has allowed chemical communication within brain cells to be "read" at a resolution previously unheard of. In 2008, Syed made headlines when his lab, in collaboration with a German team, developed the first "neurochip"-- a bionic hybrid technology that allowed snail brain cells to be stimulated through a chip and the resulting activity to be recorded. "The notion was that we should be able to regain lost brain function from, f...[More] |
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