Imaging and manipulating the brain has come a long way from electrodes and the patch clamp, though such traditional tools remain essential.

George Church is at it again, this time using multiplex gene editing to create virus-proof cells, improve organ transplant success, and protect elephants.

The scenarios that run through our sleeping brains may help us explore possible solutions to concerns from our waking lives.

The COVID-19 pandemic is still with us. Biomedical innovation has rallied to address that pressing concern while continuing to tackle broader research challenges.

Meet some of the people featured in the October 2013 issue of The Scientist.

A neurologist by training, Stefánsson founded Iceland-based deCODE Genetics to explore what the human genome can tell us about disease and our species’ evolution.

Our perception of quantity, separate from counting or estimation of magnitude more generally, is foundational to human cognition, according to some neuroscientists.

Researchers are borrowing designs from the natural world to advance biomedicine.

Conversations between the immune and central nervous systems are proving to be essential for the healthy social behavior, learning, and memory.

Meet some of the people featured in the October 2017 issue of The Scientist.