Archive · 2015-04-22
AI ethics on Wednesday, 22 April 2015
3 items published this day, across 1 categories.
Research (3)
Nudge Versus Boost: How Coherent are Policy and Theory?
Combining Microfluidics, Optogenetics and Calcium Imaging to Study Neuronal Communication In Vitro
In this paper we report the combination of microfluidics, optogenetics and calcium imaging as a cheap and convenient platform to study synaptic communication between neuronal populations in vitro. We first show that Calcium Orange indicator is compatible in vitro with a commonly used Channelrhodopsine-2 (ChR2) variant, as standard calcium imaging conditions did not alter significantly the activity of transduced cultures of rodent primary neurons. A fast, robust and scalable process for micro-chi
Association between the Fatty Liver Index and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in the EPIC-Potsdam Study
The fatty liver index (FLI) predicts fatty liver by using BMI, waist circumference, γ-glutamyltransferase and triglycerides. We investigated the association between the FLI and the risk of type 2 diabetes and evaluated to what extent single FLI components contribute to the diabetes risk. We analysed a case-cohort study (random sub-cohort: 1922; incident cases: 563) nested within the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC)-Potsdam study. The proportion of exposure effe