Rice is the most widely consumed staple food source for a large part of the world’s population. It has now…
Key brain region was ‘recycled’ as humans developed the ability to read
A new study offers evidence that the brain’s inferotemporal cortex, which is specialized to perform object recognition, has been repurposed…
Can sleep protect us from forgetting old memories?
Researchers report that sleep may help people to learn continuously through their lifetime by encoding new memories and protecting old…
‘Price of life’ lowest in UK during COVID-19 pandemic, study finds
The price the UK government was prepared to pay to save lives during the COVID-19 pandemic was far lower than…
Study reveals greater excitability in social brain regions of autistic men compared to women
New findings suggest that autistic men, but not women, have enhanced neural excitability in their social brain regions, and this…
Researchers develop new mouse model for SARS-CoV-2
Researchers have developed a new mouse model to study SARS-CoV-2 infection and disease and to accelerate testing of novel treatments…
Artificial organelles created to control cellular behavior
Biomedical engineers have demonstrated a method for controlling the phase separation of an emerging class of proteins to create artificial…
AI may offer a better way to ID drug-resistant superbugs
Biomedical engineers have shown that different strains of the same bacterial pathogen can be distinguished by a machine learning analysis…
Cell diversity in the embryo
Epigenetic factors control the development of an organism.
The wrong track: How papillomaviruses trick the immune system
Specific antibodies protect us against viral infections – or do they not? Researchers studied the immune response to papillomaviruses in…