Cap off your celebration of Brain Awareness Week with some artistic applications of neuroscience.
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Cap off your celebration of Brain Awareness Week with some artistic applications of neuroscience.
Two key patent cases that no doubt will impact the future of personalized medicine are pending review by the US Supreme Court. What will the Court decide?
Pharmaceutical companies should deploy cash to fund struggling biotech companies, which could generate much needed new drugs.
Funding only outstanding researchers is increasing the gap between good and great labs and forcing some out of science in search of a bigger paycheck.
Designing the simplest possible living organism artificially may lend clues as to what life is.
While biotechnology has met with mixed public reactions, to date nanotechnology seems to invoke much less public concern.
Hormones in the brain control sex-specific behaviors by activating individual genetic programs.
Celebrity spokespeople for pharma companies can manipulate the public’s understanding of disease.
Biomedical research can learn from citizen science, which is grounded in strong relationships with study participants.
Whole brain radiation therapy costs mice some of their cognitive abilities, but treatment with low-oxygen air revives their reasoning skills.