Scientists can now monitor and record the activity of hundreds of neurons concurrently in the…
Month: August 2014
Haven’t my neurons seen this before? What happens in the brain with familiar pictures?
The world grows increasingly more chaotic year after year, and our brains are constantly bombarded…
Are you as old as what you eat? Researchers learn how to rejuvenate aging immune cells
Researchers have demonstrated how an interplay between nutrition, metabolism and immunity is involved in the…
Bioengineers close to brewing opioid painkillers without using opium from poppies
A process that uses genetically engineering yeast cells to replicate the entire opioid production process,…
Driving brain rhythm makes mice more sensitive to touch
In a new study researchers show that they could make faint sensations more vivid by…
Cutting emissions pays for itself, study concludes
Health care savings can greatly defray costs of carbon-reduction policies, experts report. But just how…
Repurposing anti-depressant medication to target medulloblastoma
A novel molecular pathway that causes an aggressive form of medulloblastoma has been identified by…
Mimicking natural evolution with ‘promiscuous reactions’ to improve the diversity of drugs
A revolutionary new scientific method will improve the diversity of ‘biologically active molecules’, such as…
Signatures of selection inscribed on poplar genomes
A team of researchers used a combination of genome-wide selection scans and analyses to understand…
Simply complex: The origin of our body axes
One fundamental question in biology is what constitutes the basic type of the animal body…