A good night's sleep does more than just help you feel rested--it might literally clear your mind. A new study shows how deep sleep may wash away waste buildup in the brain during waking hours, an ...

An international team of UK and US scientists has discovered that the activity of macrophages—a type of white blood cell that ...

A new study published in Science Advances reveals evidence of electrical signaling and coordinated behavior in ...

A collection of reviews in the journal Neuron reflects on progress in understanding the impact of aging on the brain, but many questions remain unanswered.

Just like your body has a skeleton, every cell in your body has a skeleton—a cytoskeleton to be precise. This provides cells ...

For years, John Fleischman carried the journal of his late mentor, who died from HIV/AIDS. He finally found the perfect home ...

A new building kit for creating unique sense-and-respond circuits in human cells has been created by bioengineers at Rice ...

Rice University bioengineers have developed a new construction kit for building custom sense-and-respond circuits in human ...

Organoids, or living biobanks, are living tissue models widely used in biomedical research and drug screening. A recent ...

The scientists at the Allen Institute for Brain Science have identified the molecular changes that occur in the brains of ...

This finding suggests that Homo sapiens had a taste for starch much before the domestication of crops shaped the human diet.

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their ...