You’re seeing hundreds of images mosaic together to encompass the whole fly brain from tip to tip.” On a large monitor, the ...

Photosynthesis is one of those things you probably learned about in school, tucked somewhere between diagrams of chloroplasts ...

Mapping a human cell gives researchers a view of subcellular architecture and sheds light on how cancer develops.

If nerve cells ... circuit diagrams, scientists want to learn how the brain works. At Max Planck Institutes, they are already working to explain the principles of information processing. Currently, ...

In a leap forward for genetic and biomedical research, two scientists at the University of Missouri have developed a powerful ...

Mitochondria supply the body with the energy currency adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which drives all bodily activities. For ...

Scientists discovered that axons don’t quite look like straight cables. Instead, axons often appear like pearls on a string.

Background Current treatments with tyrosine kinase inhibitors and immune checkpoint inhibitors have limited efficacy for ...

Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, United States ...

A Cambrian fossil once thought to be a mollusk ancestor is now identified as a chancelloriid relative, reshaping ideas about ...

Scientists have developed revolutionary contact lenses that grant wearers the ability to see infrared light—a feat humans naturally cannot achieve. This breakthrough, detailed in the journal Cell00454 ...