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A group of scientists have developed a new computational tool, based on the mathematical Graph theory, to infer global, large-scale regulatory networks, from healthy and pathological organs, such as those affected by diabetes or Alzheimer's disease.

A genetic mutation that a Chinese scientist attempted to create in twin babies born last year, ostensibly to help them fend off HIV infection, is also associated with a 21% increase in mortality in later life.

An international team of researchers have published a new study in which they review the ways that the Internet can produce both acute and sustained alterations in specific areas of cognition, which may reflect changes in the brain, affecting our attentional capacities, memory processes, and social interactions.

A a game called Foldit is enabling citizen scientists to design brand new proteins, and to participate in protein engineering discovery.

A team of British researchers has developed a method that enables computers to make decisions in a way that is more similar to humans. Specifically, the method mimics the complex process of how humans make decisions by enabling the computers to render several acceptable decisions to one specific problem.

Researchers have combined demographic projections and climate scenarios across Africa for the first time. Their results reveal that one third of the African urban population will potentially be exposed to extreme temperatures.

In a new paper, researchers demonstrate that the ears of bats come with a "built-in ambulance" that creates the Doppler shift effect that is characteristic of the ambulance's siren. Yin and Mueller think the study of ear-generated Doppler shifts in bat biosonar could give rise to new sensory principles that could enable small, yet powerful sensors.

Scientists have developed a personalized digital meditation training program that significantly improved attention and memory in healthy young adults in just six weeks. The intervention, called MediTrain, utilizes a closed-loop algorithm that tailors the length of the meditation sessions to the abilities of the participants.

Cloud services and the IoT often use FPGA chips that are considered as relatively secure; however, scientists recently detected a vulnerability that calls for protection

Although the importance of machine learning methods in genome research has grown steadily in recent years, researchers have often had to resort to using obsolete software. Scientists in clinical research often did not have access to the most recent models. This will change with the new free open access repository: Kipoi.