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Humanoid robots step up their game: how useful are the latest droids?
11+ min ago (522+ words) Humanoid robots are being trialed in car manufacturing.Credit: VCG/Getty Humanoid robots are on the brink of being commercially useful, say Chinese and US firms that have announced plans to produce them at scale in the past three months....
Construction of synthetic protein-binding non-genetic DNA systems in living cells - Nature Chemistry
2+ hour, 44+ min ago (1715+ words) Nature Chemistry (2026)Cite this article All data are available in the Article or its Supplementary Information. Source data are provided with this paper. Plasmid sequences used in this study, as well as standard curve generation and raw Ct values for…...
An agentic AI framework for ingestion and standardization of single-cell RNA-seq data analysis - npj Artificial Intelligence
8+ hour, 2+ min ago (1673+ words) A comprehensive description of the agentic system, CellAtria, including its architectural design and implementation details, is provided in the Methods section. To illustrate CellAtria's capabilities, we implemented three prototypical use cases, each representing a common scenario in single-cell research. Direct…...
Consciousness, subjectivity, and aging in western thought - Neuropsychopharmacology
10+ hour, 38+ min ago (1732+ words) Receive 13 print issues and online access only $19.92 per issue Baars BJ. The conscious access hypothesis: The role of global workspace theory in explaining higher-order cognitive functions. Trends Cogn Sci. 2002;6:45561. Bechara A, Damasio H, Tranel D, Damasio AR. The Iowa Gambling…...
Modeling Ischemic Stroke Pathological Dynamics via Continuous Fields and Vector Flow - npj Digital Medicine
10+ hour, 38+ min ago (1651+ words) Our work is positioned at the intersection of medical image segmentation, continuous signal representation, and vector field learning. We situate StrokeFlow by reviewing the relevant literature in these three key areas. Another line of work attempts to directly predict functional…...
Upconversion particle-based optical tweezers for sensing applications - Nature Protocols
17+ hour, 58+ min ago (1065+ words) Nature Protocols (2026)Cite this article The data that support the findings of this study are available within the article and its Supplementary Information. Other relevant data are available from the corresponding authors upon reasonable request. All the custom codes are…...
Investigating the methodological foundation of lesion network mapping - Nature Neuroscience
20+ hour, 19+ min ago (1701+ words) The compressed version (Fig. 2c) describes the LNM procedure now as: (step 1) matching lesion ms of participant s to the region(s) i in the used brain atlas; (step 2) selecting the matching row(s) i in the group connectivity matrix C; repeat steps…...
Pediatric diabetes prediction using machine learning - Scientific Reports
23+ hour, 33+ min ago (901+ words) The remainder of this paper is organized as follows: in the second section, we present the related work. Section'Methods details the proposed architecture and the corresponding features through a comparison of nine classification techniques. The results are presented in Section'Train…...
Skin disease diagnostics through federated transfer learning on heterogeneous data - Scientific Reports
1+ day, 17+ min ago (1490+ words) The first method, transfer learning, employs DNN to fine-tune a pre-trained model for skin disease classification. The second method combines feature extraction and transfer learning, where pre-trained models like DenseNet, VGG19, Xception, and UNet are used to extract features, which are…...
Spiking neural networks with fatigue spike-timing-dependent plasticity learning using hybrid memristor arrays - Nature Electronics
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (1502+ words) Merolla, P. A. et al. A million spiking-neuron integrated circuit with a scalable communication network and interface. Science 345, 668673 (2014). Qiao, N., Mostafa, H., Corradi, F., Osswald, M. & Stefanini, F. A reconfigurable on-line learning spiking neuromorphic processor comprising 256 neurons and 128K synapses. Front. Neurosci. 9, 141 (2015). Larimer, P. & Strowbridge, B. Timing is everything. Nature…...