Researchers led by Jean-Paul Noel at the University of Minnesota, United States, have decoupled intentions, actions and their effects by manipulating the brain-machine interface that allows a person with otherwise paralyzed arms and legs to squeeze a ball when they want to. Published in the open-access journal PLOS Biology on April 17^th, the study reveals temporal binding between intentions and actions, which makes actions seem to happen faster when they are intentional.

Shawn Demehri, MD, PhD, a physician-investigator in the Cutaneous Biology Research Center and Krantz Family Center for Cancer Research at Massachusetts General Hospital and an Associate Professor of Dermatology at Harvard Medical School in the senior author of a new study in Cell Reports, Epigenomic Regulation of Stemness Contributes to the Low Immunogenicity of the Most Mutated Human Cancer.