Compounds we perceive as sweet or bitter in the mouth trigger similar receptors and signaling pathways elsewhere in the body, helping to regulate digestion, respiration, and other systems.
Compounds we perceive as sweet or bitter in the mouth trigger similar receptors and signaling pathways elsewhere in the body, helping to regulate digestion, respiration, and other systems.
As neuroscientists look to the future of their field, they are beginning to delve into more complex factors that define our emotions and intentions.
In fewer than 15 years, nanomedicine has gone from fantasy to reality.
At the nanoscale old materials acquire new properties that International Institute for Nanotechnology Director Chad Mirkin thinks will change the way medicine is practiced.
Exploiting the unique properties of living systems makes synthetic biologists better engineers.
Designing genomes from scratch will be the next revolution in biology.
Considered a renegade by his peers, Nobel Prize-winner Eric Kandel used a simple model to probe the neural circuitry of memory.
Nanotechnology will offer doctors new ways to diagnose and treat patients, boosting efficiency and slashing costs.
Learn about the field’s first genetic circuits and read forecasts by George M. Church and J. Craig Venter of a future where man-made organisms pump out novel fuels, drugs, and therapies.