These so-called "mirror neurons" have been argued to be part of the biological substrate for empathy.
But can your mind exist only in a biological substrate that weighs 1.5 kilograms, is very wet, and floats like a jellyfish?
All the same, the more you look at laughter's history, the more it seems that – whatever the biological substrate – culture has a bigger part than nature to play in the whole process.
"We know that the prefrontal cortex is not fully developed until the 20s, and some people will ask, 'Why are you trying to improve prefrontal abilities when the biological substrate is not there yet?' " said Adele Diamond, a professor of developmental cognitive science at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
The project proposes a novel operationalisation of physical frailty that recognizes sarcopenia as its biological substrate.
Mucoadhesive films are retentive dosage forms and release drug directly into a biological substrate.
Human occipital-temporal cortex features several areas sensitive to faces, presumably forming the biological substrate for face perception.
The binding modes of the chiral substrates were identical to that observed for the biological substrate acetone cyanohydrin.
However, there has disadvantages such as a thermal effect on articular cartilage, degenerative arthritis and that PMMA is not a biological substrate [37].
This technique is potentially interesting in the field of bioadhesion, since it furnishes a direct method to test the adhesion of a particle to a biological substrate.
Protein adsorption is a key initial event that transforms the surface of a biomedical device into a biological substrate that will govern subsequent cellular interactions.
