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Using a single-cell RNA sequencing method and genetic tracing, researchers at Karolinska Institutet, the Medical University of Vienna in Austria and Harvard University in the USA have now identified and characterised all cell populations in mouse teeth and in the young growing and adult human teeth.

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have developed a method for fast, cheap, yet accurate testing for COVID-19 infection. The method simplifies and frees the testing from expensive reaction steps, enabling upscaling of the diagnostics.

The European Laboratory Research & Innovation Group (ELRIG) UK, today announced the election of Melanie Leveridge as Chair. Melanie will guide the not-for-profit organisation serving the life science and drug discovery communities, to help drive further collaboration and knowledge exchange between academic and biopharma industry thought-leaders, through the provision of scientific meetings and conferences on an open access basis.

A new study describes an innovative approach for identifying molecules that can help track the progression of Parkinson's disease.

Scientists at EPFL, ETH Zurich and Harvard Medical School/Boston Children’s Hospital have developed an implantable technology that enabled the discovery of an interaction between sensory neurons and immune cells.

Researchers at the University of Helsinki have developed a technique in which a computer models visual perception by monitoring human brain signals. In a way, it is as if the computer tries to imagine what a human is thinking about. As a result of this imagining, the computer is able to produce entirely new information, such as fictional images that were never before seen.

New insight on how people with retinal degenerative disease can maintain their night vision for a relatively long period of time has been published today in the open-access eLife journal.

Is the heat still bearable, or should I take my hand off the hotplate? Before the brain can react appropriately to pain, it must evaluate and integrate sensory, cognitive and emotional factors, which requires the exchange of information between different regions of the brain. A new study has asked how cognitive strategies that affect one's subjective perception of pain influence the patterns of neural activity in the brain.

All animals great and small live every day in an uncertain world. Whether you are a human being or an insect, you rely on your senses to help you navigate and survive in your world. But what drives this essential sensing?

New research suggests that Parkinson's disease is not one but two diseases, starting either in the brain or in the intestines. Which explains why patients with Parkinson's describe widely differing symptoms,. The findings points towards personalized medicine as the way forward for people with Parkinson's disease.