With the help of computer algorithms that excel at pattern recognition, researchers look for meaning in vast pictorial datasets.

Deep learning approaches in development by big players in the tech industry can be used by biologists to extract more information from the images they create.

Computer chips based on biological neurons may help simulate larger and more-complex brain models.

So far, six animal species are known to carry transmissible, “parasitic” forms of cancer, but researchers are still mystified as to how cancer can become infectious.

The technology has wowed the field by all but obliterating some patients’ blood cancers, but solid malignancies present new challenges.

Advances in the functional characterization of newly discovered microproteins hint at diverse roles in health and disease.

The drugs lead to widespread, predictable changes in brain waves that can help anesthesiologists personalize anesthesia and develop anesthetic-based treatments.

Scientists may need to seriously reconsider the cast-aside hypothesis that pathogens can play a part in diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

Plasmodium falciparum has shown an ability to evade everything we throw at it, most recently artemisinin-based combination therapies, today’s front-line treatment.