Complex protein interactions at synapses are essential for memory formation in our brains, but the mechanisms behind these ...

DNA strand displacement circuits are inching closer to becoming cellular machines. Scientists are finding ways to make these programmable nanodevices stable and functional inside living cells. If ...

For the first time, scientists have built a detailed, interactive map of a human cell, revealing how thousands of proteins ...

Inspired by sea sponges, researchers created living micro-lenses from bacteria that may improve medical and industrial ...

The 3D brain map includes more than 200,000 cells, 523 million synapses and over two miles of axons, representing the most detailed wiring diagram of a piece of mammal brain ever constructed ...

From a tiny sample of tissue no larger than a grain of sand, scientists have come within reach of a goal once thought unattainable: building a complete functional wiring diagram of a portion of the ...

Thanks to a mouse watching clips from "The Matrix," scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date -- ...

Scientists have created the most detailed wiring diagram of a mammalian brain to date, mapping every cell and synapse in a cubic millimeter of a mouse’s visual cortex.

Scientists achieved “a milestone” by charting the activity and structure of 200,000 cells in a mouse brain and their 523 ...