Comparing a map of the neurons in a nematode worm - the connectome - with a map of how signals travel across those neurons ...

Harvard scientists have embarked upon an ambitious program to create a circuit diagram of the human brain, with the help of new machines that automatically turn brain tissue into high-resolution ...

Previously unmapped sections of the genome explain how cells sense their mechanical environment and could open new paths for ...

Drug development and production rely on stringent quality controls, reproducibility, and verification. Biopharmaceuticals, including protein-based therapies, require extensive characterization, ...

University of Wisconsin researchers Sushmita Roy and Erika Da-Inn Lee have developed a new computational tool that maps ...

Scientists have developed a structure-mapping engine (SME) model that could give computers the ability to reason more like humans and even make moral decisions. The SME is capable of analogical ...

How a brain's anatomical structure relates to its function is one of the most important questions in neuroscience. It ...

Astronomers have discovered hundreds of previously unknown sites of massive star formation in the Milky Way, including the most distant such objects yet found in our home galaxy. Ongoing studies of ...

Researchers worldwide are racing to develop potential vaccines and drugs to fight the new coronavirus, called SARS-Cov-2. Now, a group of researchers has figured out the molecular structure of a key ...