A normally land-based microbiologist sets sail to find the building blocks of novel antibiotics in marine bacteria.
A normally land-based microbiologist sets sail to find the building blocks of novel antibiotics in marine bacteria.
Inducing certain brain patterns extends non-REM sleep in mice.
The global spread of dengue virus has immunologists and public-health experts debating the best way to curb infection.
Children with dyslexia have an easier time learning to read after playing action video games that don’t incorporate reading.
Previously enigmatic circular RNAs have been found to influence gene expression by binding to and blocking another class of regulatory RNA, the microRNAs.
Blind tadpoles regain vision when new eyes are grafted onto their tails.
Transplanting mouse neurons into rats allows the neurons to survive twice as long as they would in mice.
One gene involved in speech produces more of its protein in the brains of young girls than boys.
Three Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are offering $3 million to scientists demonstrating excellence in biology and medical research.
A new project to map the activity of the human brain could receive more than $3 billion dollars in federal funds in President Obama’s upcoming budget proposal.