There is no shortage of wonders that our central nervous system produces—from thought and language to movement to the five senses. All of those dazzling traits, however, depend on an underap... Read more
Fish leave bits of DNA behind that researchers can collect. Mark Stoeckle/Diane Rome Peebles images, CC BY-ND Mark Stoeckle, The Rockefeller University Ocean life is largely hidden from view... Read more
Some microbes can form memories—although, inconveniently for scientists who study the process, they don’t do it very often. Rockefeller University researchers and their colleagues at the Uni... Read more
How the brain recognizes faces MIT researchers and their colleagues have developed a new computational model of the human brain’s face-recognition mechanism that seems to capture aspects of... Read more
When it comes to measuring brain activity, scientists have tools that can take a precise look at a small slice of the brain (less than one cubic millimeter), or a blurred look at a larger ar... Read more
New technology could be used to detect drugs at airports, diagnose certain cancers and test food quality, researchers say Humans can detect more than one trillion different smells, according... Read more
Rockefeller University scientists have analysed soils from beaches, forests, and deserts on five continents and discovered the best places in the world to mine untapped antibiotic and antica... Read more
“It brings us closer to the possibility of replacement organs grown in petri dishes and wounds that can be swiftly healed.” About seven days after conception, something remarkable occurs in... Read more
New formula for fast, abundant H2 production may help power fuel cells, helps explain expansive chemical-eating microbial communities of the deep Scientists in Lyon, a French city famed for... Read more
VARIANT OF COMMON SOIL-BASED PATHOGEN FOUND FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A PATIENT WITH MS RESEARCHERS FIND EVIDENCE OF SIMILAR INFECTION IN OTHER MS PATIENTS A research team from Weill Cornell Med... Read more
Researchers have been able to mobilize the brain’s native stem cells to replenish a type of neuron lost in Huntington’s disease. In the study, which appears today in the journal ... Read more
In one of the first successful attempts at genetically engineering mosquitoes, HHMI researchers have altered the way the insects respond to odors, including the smell of humans and the insec... Read more
Eleven scientists became multimillionaires this morning when they were named the first winners of the new Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences. Each researcher, whose specialties include gene... Read more
The treatment of hepatitis C virus infections has taken a major step forward with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of two new drugs, telaprevir and boceprevir, for managing t... Read more
