Life's Ratchet, The Annotated and Illustrated Double Helix, The Fractalist and Hallucinations
Life's Ratchet, The Annotated and Illustrated Double Helix, The Fractalist and Hallucinations
Researchers learn to predict visual imagery in dreams based on functional MRI scans of brain activity during sleep.
A microfluidic device scans individual C. elegans for abnormal traits and sorts wild-type animals from mutants.
Unlike epithelial cells, neurons respond to herpes infection through autophagy, rather than by releasing inflammatory factors.
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2012 saw the birth of a handful of non-invasive genetic prenatal tests, but the young industry faces growing pains as legal and ethical questions loom.
The science images and videos that captured our attention in 2012
Fat cells behave differently in obese individuals, causing inflammation and insulin resitance.
After decades of political wrangling, the European Union is poised to introduce a single patent system to reduce red tape and application costs for researchers and companies.
The healing powers of maggots may lie in their secreted proteins, which restrain the human immune response.