Real-time monitoring of neuronal activities, intended for exploring the mysterious function of the brain and understanding the underlying mechanisms of neurological disorders such as epilepsy and Alzheimer’s disease, has long posed a formidable challenge.Potassium ion (K+), as a key determinant of membrane potential, has been one of the main investigation targets because its concentration change in extracellular space directly affects the membrane potential of the neurons and impacts the neuron...

The USASince the outbreak of novel coronavirus pneumonia (NCP), ZJU alumni associations across the United States, say, in Washington, California, Boston, Chicago, Arizona, Indianapolis and Detroit, have embraced the strength of kindness from alumni and other kind-hearted people and donated over 10,000 first-aid medical supplies, including protective coveralls and N95 respirators, to frontline doctors in Zhejiang-based hospitals.Behind these boxes of supplies are the painstaking efforts of everyo...

Immune cells in the brain chew up memories, a new study in mice shows.In a new report entitled “Microglia mediate forgetting via complement-dependent synaptic elimination” in the Feb. 7 Science, researchers GU Yan and WANG Lang at Zhejiang University School of Medicine, describe a completely new way that the brain forgets.  That may sound like a bad thing, but forgetting is just as important as remembering. “The world constantly changes,” says Frankland, neuroscientist Paul Fr...

How long can 2019-nCoV survive? Is there any specific drug to prevent it? Is it transmissible between pets and humans? … These questions concerning the 2019 novel coronavirus are answered.On February 3, the 13th routine conference on the prevention and control of 2019-nCoV was held in Hubei Province. Three members on the high-level team of experts of China’s National Health Commission introduced relevant information. Let’s take a look at the answers to 8 new FAQs about 2019-nCoV.Q1: Has ...

The research team selected volunteers from paraplegic patients. Mr. Zhang was the principal of a high school before his retirement. He was well-educated and had a high demand for his own quality of life. Mr. ZHNAG and his family were very willing to give a shot at the brain-computer interface in the hope of helping him restore some basic limb movement function, improve his quality of life and promote his connection with the outside world. Then, the research team preformed the electrode implantat...

Zhejiang University has always been in the vanguard of research into the brain-computer interface thanks to multi-disciplinary cooperation in neuroscience, information engineering technology and medicine.Researchers at Zhejiang University took the lead in applying the brain-computer interface to animal models in China, including the brain-computer interface commanding an external manipulator to complete different gestures such as “hooking, grabbing, pinching and holding” and the brain mind con...

Mr. ZHANG, the 72-year-old paraplegic patient in the ward of the Department of Neurosurgery in the Second Affiliated Hospital, received interactive training with robotic arms and manipulators for more than 4 months, and the process of mind control fared increasingly well.At this moment, Mr. ZHANG, peacefully sitting in his chair, is helping himself to a bottle of diet coke. Two years ago, he suffered a car accident and his limbs ended up utterly paralyzed. Fortunately, his brain was not damaged....

On January 16, the “brain-computer interface” research team from the Zhejiang University Qiushi Academy for Advanced Studies announced that together with the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University, it had completed China’s first clinical translational study of the motor function reconstruction at the brain-computer interface. The 72-year-old paraplegic patient could take full advantage of the cerebral cortex EEG signals to precisely control an external robotic arm and a manipulator...

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These days, a new “employee” —meal delivery robothas been hired in the isolation ward for treating novel coronavirus infection cases in Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital affiliated with the Zhejiang University School of Medicine.It is a smart robot which is chiefly responsible for delivering meals to the isolation ward so as to avoid unnecessary contact and protect patients and medical staff maximally. Each time it delivers a la carte meals to the ward, it will automatically call the room number and i...