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Scientists have puzzled for centuries over how and why multicellular organisms evolved the almost universal trait of using single cells,...

Kwabena Boahen got his first computer in 1982, when he was a teenager living in Accra. “It was a really...

Navigate the brain in a way that was never before possible; fly through major brain pathways, compare essential circuits, zoom...

A paper published in a special edition of the journal Science proposes a novel understanding of brain architecture using a...

Tufts University biologists using new, automated training and testing techniques have found that planarian flatworms store memory outside their brains...

When you look at the hands of a clock or the streets on a map, your brain is effortlessly performing...

What sounds like a dream of the future has already been the subject of research for a few years: simply...

Bioengineers from the University of California, San Diego have created a new method for analyzing RNA transcripts from samples of...

In medicine, the printers are already making prosthetic hands, hearing aid cases and parts of human ears. This riboflavin-rich material...

Bioengineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have shown that physical cues can replace certain chemicals when nudging mature cells...

The poster child for basic research might well be a one-celled green algae found in ordinary lakes and ponds. Amazingly,...

In two parallel projects, researchers have created new genomes inside the bacterium E. coli in ways that test the limits...

Our ability to grasp and manipulate objects relies on feedback from our sense of touch. Without these signals from the...

A brain region activated when people are asked to perform mathematical calculations in an experimental setting is similarly activated when...

Thirty-four million people are living with human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, worldwide and each year some 2.5 million more are...

The medical, humanitarian and economical impact of viral diseases is devastating to humans and livestock. There are no adequate therapies...

The human brain keeps changing throughout a person's lifetime. New connections are continually created while synapses that are no longer...

A new technique developed by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine could pave the way to an era...

Dengue fever, an infectious tropical disease found in more than 100 countries, has no cure and no vaccine. One reason...

Scientists have revealed nearly 100 genetic variants implicated in the development of cancers such as breast cancer and prostate cancer....