Li-Huei Tsai began her career in cancer biology, then took a fearless leap into neuroscience, making singular breakthroughs along the way.
Micrometer-size magnetrodes detect activity-generated magnetic fields within living brains.
The blood-brain barrier is a collection of specialized cells and proteins that control the movement of molecules from the blood to the central nervous system.
Newly designed sensors detect the magnetic fields generated by electrical activity within cat brains.
Recent advances in single-cell omics and other techniques are revealing variation at genomic, epigenomic, transcriptomic, and posttranscriptomic levels.
The Dartmouth College professor uses optogenetics to probe the neurological routes of habitual behavior.
A four-time winner of the USA Memory Championship is helping scientists understand how the brain works.
Optogenetic and chemogenetic tools illuminate brain and behavior connections in nonhuman primates.
Four-time USA Memory Champion Nelson Dellis reveals some of his memory-training tactics.
While wiping fear from our brains may seem attractive, the emotion is an essential part of our behavioral repertoire.
The prominent researcher has been put on administrative leave pending an investigation into unspecified allegations.
The 20-year project calls into question the conventional wisdom about the role plants will play in mitigating future climate change.
The US Senate narrowly approved the politician, who does not have a science background.
Researchers deliver small interfering RNAs loaded into nanoparticles into the ears of adult guinea pigs to regenerate hair cells damaged by noise.
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