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Scientists Solve Major Piece in the Origin of Biological Complexity
Scientists have puzzled for centuries over how and why multicellular organisms evolved the almost universal trait of using single cells,...
Neuroelectronics Make Smarter Computer Chips
Kwabena Boahen got his first computer in 1982, when he was a teenager living in Accra. “It was a really...
The Human Connectome Project
Navigate the brain in a way that was never before possible; fly through major brain pathways, compare essential circuits, zoom...
Researchers gain new insights into brain neuronal networks
A paper published in a special edition of the journal Science proposes a novel understanding of brain architecture using a...
The secrets of how memories can be encoded in living tissues
Tufts University biologists using new, automated training and testing techniques have found that planarian flatworms store memory outside their brains...
Mini-neural computer in the brain
When you look at the hands of a clock or the streets on a map, your brain is effortlessly performing...
Need Different Types of Tissue? Just Print Them!
What sounds like a dream of the future has already been the subject of research for a few years: simply...
Bioinformatics Breakthrough: High Quality Transcriptome from as Few as Fifty Cells
Bioengineers from the University of California, San Diego have created a new method for analyzing RNA transcripts from samples of...
Why Engineers Want To Put B Vitamins In 3-D Printers
In medicine, the printers are already making prosthetic hands, hearing aid cases and parts of human ears. This riboflavin-rich material...
Embryonic-Like Stem Cells Created from Mature Cells
Bioengineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have shown that physical cues can replace certain chemicals when nudging mature cells...
Critical Tool for Brain Research Derived from Basic Science of Single Celled Algae
The poster child for basic research might well be a one-celled green algae found in ordinary lakes and ponds. Amazingly,...
Researchers Advance Toward Engineering ‘Wildly New Genome’
In two parallel projects, researchers have created new genomes inside the bacterium E. coli in ways that test the limits...
Amputees May Feel Touches with Limbs Linked to Brain
Our ability to grasp and manipulate objects relies on feedback from our sense of touch. Without these signals from the...
Method of Recording Brain Activity Could Lead to Mind-Reading Devices
A brain region activated when people are asked to perform mathematical calculations in an experimental setting is similarly activated when...
Researcher develops new medicine that attacks HIV before it integrates with human DNA
Thirty-four million people are living with human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, worldwide and each year some 2.5 million more are...
Tracking viral DNA in the cell
The medical, humanitarian and economical impact of viral diseases is devastating to humans and livestock. There are no adequate therapies...
New Theory of Synapse Formation in the Brain
The human brain keeps changing throughout a person's lifetime. New connections are continually created while synapses that are no longer...
Scientists create technique for high-speed, low-cost epigenomic mapping
A new technique developed by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine could pave the way to an era...
Mice With Human Immune Cells Give Researchers New View of Dengue Fever
Dengue fever, an infectious tropical disease found in more than 100 countries, has no cure and no vaccine. One reason...
Junk DNA Reveals Disease-Causing Genetic Mutations
Scientists have revealed nearly 100 genetic variants implicated in the development of cancers such as breast cancer and prostate cancer....