Diaz: "I've always been interested in the discovery of new molecules, especially those with unique paths and intracellular influences. This is where answers to many disease processes can be found." A ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Many universities have dedicated student-run ...

True multicellular animals, the eumetazoans, have the ability to make specialized cell types, and that ability appears to have come equipped with a common genetic toolkit. Those common genes extend ...

A new organic artificial synapse could support computers that better recreate the way the human brain processes information. It could also lead to improvements in brain-machine technologies. For all ...

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Engineers have designed an artificial synapse in such a way that they can precisely control the strength of an electric current flowing across it, similar to the way ions flow between neurons. The ...

Synapses are the key to communication inside the brain. These microscopic gaps are where signals jump from one neuron to another. Your brain has trillions of them. Now, scientists have created a 3-D ...