When two cells "talk" to each other, they often do so through tiny channels called electrical synapses. Unlike chemical ...

A high-speed “zap-and-freeze” method is giving scientists their clearest view yet of how brain cells send messages. By ...

All life everywhere is shaped by the subtle touch of evolution, but given our mastery over our environment, has human evolution completely stopped?

In a groundbreaking study, UC Santa Cruz researchers have shown that developing brain tissue exhibits spontaneous activity ...

This week, Svante Pääbo, Nobel Prize winner for sequencing the Neanderthal genome, is visiting Estonia. In an interview with ...

UC Davis is ideally placed to be a leader in this new field. It is the biggest, greenest campus in the UC system, a ...

Fever slows seasonal flu by blocking viral replication, but bird-flu strains resist heat. New research reveals why—and what ...

Norman Doidge, citing a study by Merzenich and colleagues, found that the brain allocates neurological resources to its most ...

Every second, trillions of tiny parcels travel through your bloodstream—carrying vital information between your body's cells. Now, scientists at the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute have opened this ...

Disrupting the chemical messages that oral bacteria use to coordinate growth may help prevent disease by keeping plaque ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approved a new pesticide with PFAS, raising alarms from scientists who warn the ...