Month: August 2014

Researchers at UC Davis have made some surprising discoveries about the body’s initial responses to HIV infection. Studying simian immunodeficiency ...

Robo Brain – a large-scale computational system that learns from publicly available Internet resources – is currently downloading and processing ...

A highly accurate model of how neurons behave when performing complex movements could aid in the design of robotic limbs ...

Scientists have known for decades that cancer can be caused by genetic mutations, but more recently they have discovered that ...

A laboratory study led by scientists from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes ...

How nerve cells within the brain communicate with each other over long distances has puzzled scientists for decades. The way ...

Researchers at the University of Milan in Italy have shown that a synthetic protein called AGMA1 has the potential to ...

Stimulating a particular region in the brain via non-invasive delivery of electrical current using magnetic pulses, called Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, ...

Johns Hopkins stem cell biologists have found a way to reprogram a patient’s skin cells into cells that mimic and ...

Human articular cartilage defects can be treated with nasal septum cells. Researchers at the University and the University Hospital of ...

Most memories have some kind of emotion associated with them: Recalling the week you just spent at the beach probably ...

The first memory-enhancing devices could be implanted within four years Lawrence Livermore engineer Vanessa Tolosa holds up a silicon wafer ...

Lowering internal eye pressure is currently the only way to treat glaucoma. A tiny eye implant developed by Stephen Quake's ...

Acoustic device that separates tumor cells from blood cells could help assess cancer’s spread. Photo Credit: Illustration Christine Daniloff/MIT Researchers ...