Functional magnetic resonance images of a vegetative patient’s brain communicate to doctors that he’s conscious and not in pain.
Functional magnetic resonance images of a vegetative patient’s brain communicate to doctors that he’s conscious and not in pain.
Inflammatory signals in injured zebrafish brains promote the growth of new neurons.
New noninvasive methods of selecting the most viable embryo could revolutionize in vitro fertilization.
| November 1, 2012
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Large RNA-protein packets use a novel mechanism to escape the cell nucleus.
Mice fed a mix of six strains of bacteria were able to fight a C. difficile infection that causes deadly diarrhea and is resistant to most types of treatment.
Swapping chromosomes from one human egg to another could eliminate mitochondrial DNA mutations that cause disease.
Viral DNA in mice genomes may lead to cancer in immune-compromised animals.
Keith Campbell, a biologist who was part of the effort to clone Dolly the sheep, has passed away at the age of 58.