Should biological explanations for criminal behavior influence a judge’s or jury’s decision about how to handle a case? If so, how?
Should biological explanations for criminal behavior influence a judge’s or jury’s decision about how to handle a case? If so, how?
Recording brain activity as patients are anesthetized for surgery, researchers identify a pattern that may signal loss of consciousness.
Large RNA-protein packets use a novel mechanism to escape the cell nucleus.
In mutating to evade immune detection, HIV becomes susceptible to detection by different antibodies, suggesting new strategies for vaccination.
The blogosphere voices widespread condemnation for a sexist comment made by a researcher attending this week’s annual Society for Neuroscience conference.
Monkeys infected with simian immunodeficiency virus have a higher diversity of gut viruses, pointing to a possible role of the virome in SIV pathogenesis.
New research shows that the growth of long-range connections between brain regions predicts how well a child will learn to read.
Brain cells called pericytes can be reprogrammed into neurons with just two proteins, pointing to a novel way to treat neurodegenerative disorders.
Researchers find that a deadly bacterial disease hitchhikes in people infected with the virus that causes AIDS to spread throughout sub-Saharan Africa.