DZNE researchers have uncovered a mechanism that determines why a neuron usually forms a single, long extension called an ...

What makes the human brain capable of language, imagination, mathematics and invention? For many years, the prevailing view ...

†Department of Physics, Cavendish Laboratories, University of Cambridge and University of Cambridge Nanoscience Centre. ‡Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.

Summary: Researchers discovered that just a single exposure to cocaine induces profound, long-lasting structural changes inside key brain cells that persist for at least two weeks. Using advanced ...

Researchers from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) have—in collaboration with colleagues from Ludwig Maximilian ...

This cell-like structure can grow, feed, divide and compete. Researchers ponder what it means for the future of synthetic ...

From why it was created to whether it’s alive, here’s what to know about SpudCell, the latest advance in synthetic biology.

While many of life's mysteries remain unsolved, every biologist can describe the basic processes performed by a living organism, including energy use, reproduction, growth and development. While these ...

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...

aDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710061, PR China bState Key Laboratory of Porous Metal Materials, Shaanxi International Research ...

On the left are three forms of the same RNA molecule, which is stabilised into a single form (on the right) by mitoxantrone. Ribonucleic acids (RNAs) serve as messengers between DNA and protein ...

Abstract: We present a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) design technology co-optimization (DTCO) methodology that allows the optimization of the DRAM cell structure in the presence of contact ...