The cover of the new book "Whole-brain modeling. Cartography of the dynamics of mind" poses the central question of what ...

Background: Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) is a rare demyelinating disease of the central nervous system usually ...

When a cell divides, it performs a feat of microscopic choreography—duplicating its DNA and depositing it into two new cells.

The ability to restore light responses in human retinas postmortem offers a novel model for studying retinal recovery and ...

A multi-institutional study led by researchers at UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, and UC San Diego has uncovered new genetic rules that determine ...

Predicting how circulating immune cells interact with human tissues remains a major challenge in preclinical drug testing. Traditional static culture ...

Most cells in the human body exist in complex three-dimensional environments, yet they are still commonly studied on flat plastic dishes.

How much of our genome really matters? Some argue that because most of our DNA is active, it must be doing something important. Others say even random DNA would be highly active. This has now been put ...

"The infection of our body cells is like a dance between virus and cell," suggested Yohei Yamauchi at ETH Zurich. With their new system, the team watched how single flu virus particles move across the ...

The technology is still in its infancy. But its trajectory suggests that ethical conversations may become pressing far sooner than expected. These “biocomputers” are still in their early days. They ...

Bram Servais formerly worked for Cortical Labs but holds no shared patents or stock and has severed all financial ties. As prominent artificial intelligence (AI) researchers eye limits to the current ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: With more than 100,000 people in need of an organ transplant in the U.S. alone, scientists have turned toward perfecting human-animal chimeras as a ...