For years, one of the simplest explanations for human intelligence was also one of the biggest: the human brain has an enormous number of neurons. It also has an even more enormous web of connections ...
About 9% of men of reproductive age in the United States experience fertility problems. One of the many causes of male ...
Surgeons have transplanted dopamine-producing cells derived from human embryonic stem cells directly into the brains of ...
A new study challenges a 60-year-old assumption about the body’s main structural building block, opening new possibilities ...
A new study proves individual human cortical neurons have the computational complexity of an entire deep artificial neural ...
A new class of microscopic machines is moving from theory into reality, and it could change how diseases are treated and how ...
Scientists have uncovered the gene-regulation mechanism that determines whether a cell survives or dies when under stress.
While many of life's mysteries remain unsolved, every biologist can describe the basic processes performed by a living organism, including energy use, reproduction, growth and development. While these ...
A jellyfish no wider than a dime can do something human skin cannot. When its surface is torn, the wound can close in minutes ...
Scientists are exploring light-activated nanoparticles to kill biofilms in stored drinking water, aiming to make household ...
In a remarkable scientific breakthrough, University of Minnesota researchers unveiled SpudCell, a synthetic construct ...