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of health and disease

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Nov 02, 2020

Building artificial neural networks inspired by the brain

The requirements of real biological neural networks are modest compared to the complex deep neural networks used in machine learning, which come with substantial memory and energy demands. The Zenke group has developed a new method in machine learning called Neural Tangent Transfer to make a sparse neural network which performs almost as well as a densely connected deep neural network on various learning tasks, but at a heavily reduced computing cost.

Oct 21, 2020

How the visual cortex combines movement and vision

Oct 08, 2020

Intestinal regeneration: lessons from organoid research

About the FMI

The Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI), based in Basel, Switzerland, is a world-class biomedical research institute, affiliated with the University of Basel and the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research.

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Oct 15, 2020

Opposing Influence of Top-down and Bottom-up Input on Excitatory Layer 2/3 Neurons in Mouse Primary Visual Cortex.

Jordan R, Keller GB

Neuron

Oct 15, 2020

DNA Damage-Induced Nucleosome Depletion Enhances Homology Search Independently of Local Break Movement.

Cheblal A, Challa K, Seeber A, Shimada K, Yoshida H, Ferreira HC, Amitai A, Gasser SM

Mol Cell

Oct 7, 2020

Phenotypic landscape of intestinal organoid regeneration.

Lukonin I, Serra D, Challet Meylan L, Volkmann K, Baaten J, Zhao R, Meeusen S, Colman K, Maurer F, Stadler MB, Jenkins J, Liberali P

Nature

Sep 17, 2020

Cell Types of the Human Retina and Its Organoids at Single-Cell Resolution.

Cowan CS, Renner M, De Gennaro M, Gross-Scherf B, Goldblum D, Hou Y, Munz M, Rodrigues TM, Krol J, Szikra T, Cuttat R, Waldt A, Papasaikas P, Diggelmann R, Patino-Alvarez CP, Galliker P, Spirig SE, Pavlinic D, Gerber-Hollbach N, Schuierer S, Srdanovic A, Balogh M, Panero R, Kusnyerik A, Szabo A, Stadler MB, Orgül S, Picelli S, Hasler PW, Hierlemann A, Scholl HPN, Roma G, Nigsch F, Roska B

Cell

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