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Researchers have developed a new technique that allows microscopic fluorescence imaging at four times the depth limit imposed by light diffusion, which could bring new insight into how the brain works in health and disease.

Researchers have developed a compact, energy-efficient device made from artificial neurons that is capable of decoding brainwaves. The chip uses data recorded from the brainwaves of epilepsy patients to identify which regions of the brain cause epileptic seizures. This opens up new perspectives for treatment.

A massive genome-wide association study (GWAS) of genetic and health records of 1.2 million people from four separate data banks has identified 178 gene variants linked to major depression.

What information is retained in a memory over time, and which parts get lost? These questions have led to many scientific theories over the years, and now a team of researchers have been able to provide some answers.

A wide variety of symptoms persisted in more than 70% of COVID-19 patients months after recovering from the initial phases of disease, according to a study by researchers at the Stanford School of Medicine.

To probe the traits of post-radiotherapy cancer genomics, a research team analyzed gliomas, a type of brain cancer, both when they first arose and after they recurred. The researchers also reviewed data from ~ 3,700 other post-treatment metastatic tumors.

Normal cells usually have multiple solutions for fixing problems, for example, they have several repair mechanisms if their DNA becomes damaged. But cancer cells may "put all their eggs in one basket", leaving them vulnerable.

A new study used an ultrasensitive, single-molecule array (Simoa) assay to detect extremely low levels of molecules in the blood and measured how these levels change over the days and weeks following vaccination.

Researchers have discovered a way to predict which patients with ovarian cancer are resistant to platinum chemotherapy.

A research collaboration specializes in high-resolution fluorescence microscopy and computational modeling to visualize and describe such stuff-of-life processes in exquisite detail, in real time, at the level of single genes. Now, scientists have, for the first time, observed early RNA transcription dynamics by recording where, when and how RNA polymerase enzymes kick off transcription by binding to a DNA sequence.