The hippocampus is an important brain region known to support various cognitive (i.e., mental) processes, including the ...

Researchers demonstrate an artificial neuron made of conductive plastics that can perform advanced functions similar to those ...

A new discovery inside your cells may change how scientists understand disease and design future treatments. Researchers have ...

Aging, neurological diseases and our bodies' stress response are all linked to the tiny power plants inside each cell known ...

Taste receptors are specialized proteins that facilitate the sense of taste. There are different groups of receptors for ...

Cell division is one of the most thoroughly studied processes in biology, yet many of its details remain mysterious. A century-old puzzle surrounding the "crown" of cell division—the kinetochore ...

A subset of more than 1,000 neurons, representing just a snapshot of the complexity mapped within a cubic millimeter of mouse brain tissue Allen Institute In 1979, biologist Francis Crick claimed it ...

Resistant to most antifungal drugs, the yeast Candidozyma auris is spreading globally and has caused recent outbreaks in US ...