Decrypting a brain enigma

Decrypting the Enigma of Rotor Machines: An Evolution in Mechanized Ciphers

Neural Coding: The enigma of the brain

Sometimes forward progress looks like backwards progress recent work on the question of how the brain encodes information provides a good example of this. For many years, ever since the experiments of Lord Adrian two-thirds of a century ago, neurobiologists agreed that neurons communicate by means of a frequency (or rate) code, in which nerve impulse frequency is used to specify the variable in...

Circular RNAs in Brain and Other Tissues: A Functional Enigma.

Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are RNAs with a covalently closed loop structure that have recently regained the attention of biologists. Using deep RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) coupled with novel bioinformatic approaches, genome-wide studies have detected a large number of circRNAs, many of which are abundant, stable, and well conserved during evolution. With few exceptions, the function of most circRNAs...

Andrea Ventura: Decrypting noncoding RNAs

Ventura explores the biological functions of noncoding RNAs in cancer and development.

Decrypting neuronal codes

The fundamental unit of the nervous system, the neuron, is now better known thanks to advances in cellular and molecular biology and in genetics. To decrypt neuronal codes underlying higher cognitive functions such as perception, attention, movement, learning, memory, language and even thought, is the main goal of research in neuroscience. This goal can only be reached thanks to a multidiscipli...