During learning and development, the level of synaptic input received by cortical neurons may change dramatically. Given a limited range of possible firing rates, how do neurons maintain ...

Consider the brake. Not the engine, which gets all the attention, but the brake, the quiet thing that decides how fast a system is allowed to go.

A recent study published in Cell Death & Disease suggests that specific cellular abnormalities in the brain associated with ...

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A simulation study of MAPbI₃ perovskite solar cells shows that quasi-sinusoidal interface texturing outperforms pyramidal and bumpy morphologies by achieving the best balance between light absorption ...

Scientists say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time that feeds, grows and replicates like a natural cell, a ...

University of Minnesota researchers created SpudCell, the first bottom-up synthetic cell that feeds, grows, replicates DNA and divides.

In a study published in Science, USC researchers paired a biological discovery with an engineering feat to create more ...

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Getting it over the finish line was a labor of love—and now, more than five years after her death, the lab of former Sloan ...

Synthetic organizers provide a way to control formation of kidney organoids as more reliable models for studying disease and ...

A group of researchers from Chinese PV manufacturer Longi and China’s Yangzhou University has developed a new manufacturing technique to mitigate laser shock waves in the production of heterojunction ...