Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I write about neuroscience and its intersection with technology. In an article published yesterday in MIT Technology Review, Rachel Nuwer ...

On August 9, doctors declared her brain-dead even though she not meet the conditions of the New York Determination of Death statute or of the Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA), both of which ...

This type of "somatic expansion" occurs in only the specific types of brain cells that later die ... The cumulative death of many such cells leads to the symptoms of Huntington's disease.