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ReNaChip project goes global


ReNaChip started in 2008 and following a recent press release from Tel Aviv University news about the ReNaChip project has gone global. more...



Spinal advance gets rats running


Hopes that people with spinal injuries could one day regain leg movement have been raised by research in rats. more...



Silk helps make bio-integrated electronics


Researchers in the US have developed a new way to connect tiny electronic circuits to the human brain. more...



Visit ReNaChip at ICT2010 Digitally Driven


Visit ReNaChip at ICT2010 Digitally Driven. more...



BCBT summer school in September 2010 30 Aug 2010- 10 Sep 2010


Barcelona cognition, brain and technology summer school will take place at UPF from 30th October to 10th September, 2010. more...



g.tec received 2010 the Science2business Award


g.tec received 2010 the Science2business Award for the “impressive cooperation with European partners more...



ReNaChip news article in North East Vision


Read the news article about ReNaChip in the North East Vision magazine. more...



INEX at Technology World 09


INEX are exhibiting and giving a key note pitch at Technology World 09, 23-24th November, Ricoh Arena, Coventry in the Science meets industry zone. more...



IBM Unveils a New Brain Simulator


IBM’s Almaden Research Center announced that they have created the largest brain simulation to date on a supercomputer. The number of neurons and synapses in the simulation exceed those in a cat’s brain... more...



ReNaChip at the movies!


The objective of the project is to develop a biomimetic, biohybrid model that can demonstrate the recovery of a learning response that is lost due to aging processes... more...



Novel Nerve Interface Electrodes


Nanowerk has reported that AIST and Toyohashi University of Technology in Japan has developed a novel electrode for a peripheral nerve interface. more...



World premiere of brain orchestra


The Multimodal Brain Orchestra performed its world premiere led by an "emotional conductor" and a traditional one, music and video change in time with the performers' brain waves and heart rate. more...



Cyborg Moth Gets a New Radio


10 February 2009—Attempts by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to create cybernetic insects (hybrids of biological and electronic bugs) have yielded ultralow-power radios to control the bugs’ flight more...



Of cells and wires


The Scientist magazine recently published an article discussing the state of the art in neuroprosthetics more...



Visit ReNaChip at ICT 2008


ICT 2008 “I” to the Future – Invention – Innovation – Impact more...



ReNaChip partner wins award


GTec have been awarded a prestigious award for innovation more...

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BCBT Summer School


Barcelona Cognition, Brain and Technology Summer School From the 8th until the 20th of September we have hosted the Barcelona Cognition, Brain and Technology summer school and it has been a great success more...

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Project Abstract

The ReNaChip project is funded by the EC Framework 7 FET Programme in Bio-ICT Convergence.

 

  • The objective of this project is to develop a full biohybrid rehabilitation and substitution methodology; replacing the aged cerebellar brain circuit with a biomimetic chip bidirectionally interfaced to the inputs and outputs of the system. Information processing will interface with the cerebellum to actuate a normal, real-time functional behavioural recovery, providing a proof-of-concept test for the functional rehabilitation of more complex neuronal systems.

  • The model neuronal system we have chosen is the cerebellar microcircuit involved in conditioning of the motor eyeblink response. Localized experimental or clinical damage to this microcircuit disrupts irreversibly the eyeblink conditioning while aging invariably compromises the acquisition and retention of the eyeblink response.

  • Using the aged rat as an experimental model we plan to integrate a biomimetic chip to rehabilitate a discrete sensory-motor learning function lost in the senescent cerebellar microcircuit, through the development of multiple enabling technologies.

  • We will develop novel electrodes to both detect the stimulus and trigger the eyeblink response. The stimulus signals will be extracted from background neuronal activity and undergo conditioning, processing and interpretation in a silicon chip which mimics the function of the deficient cerebellar circuit. The output from this biomimetic chip will then trigger the eyeblink response by way of implanted stimulation electrodes.

  • Complete success would be achieved through real-time demonstration of functional recovery of the lost motor learning response in aged rats. Advances in any or all of the component technologies, their integration and clinical implementation, and improved understanding of the neuronal circuit would represent incomplete but valuable progress in the treatment of deficient neuronal systems.



ReNaChip: Who are we?


Each month read a summary of a different ReNaChip partner, their organisation, their research group and their interests.

WizSoft
Wizsoft develop software based on mathematical algorithms, mainly for the business sector in the fields of data mining, data auditing, concept based text search engines and knowledge management...
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What else do we do?


ReNaChip partners are all active in the European scientific community and engage in many FP6 and FP7 funded projects. In this section we feature one of these projects.

SkinTreat

The SkinTreat project aims to realize the potential of customized treatments for managing skin syndromes. The consortium will develop and validate nano-chemical and bio- technologies to achieve an accurate match between drugs, drug delivery vehicles, skin diseases and sub pathogenic skin conditions per individual.
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