Linoleic acid is a common omega-6 fatty acid in many vegetable oils. In the body it is converted into signalling molecules ...

Microtubules perform an active role in communication within the cell by transmitting received signals to the cell's ...

Male nursery web spiders (Pisaura mirabilis) use the sense of smell in their legs to find mates. Researchers at the University of Greifswald used an electron microscope to discover "olfactory hairs" ...

Detectives often find important clues by digging through rubbish. That approach paid off tremendously for systems biologist ...

Leiden researchers can now visualize the connections between brain cells. Their microscopy technique could significantly advance the human quest to understand brain functions. The study is published ...

This year’s overall winner, titled Mesmerizing spider threads, is by Dr. Martin Ramirez, a research scientist for CONICET ...

For super-resolution microscopes, AI helps by restoring images from even noisy, low-fluorescence data. That capability helps ...

Leiden researchers can now visualise the connections between brain cells. They do so using a microscopy technique in which ...

To help scientists learn more about epilepsy, Alan Song has used a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship to build a new software package that displays brain activity data for epilepsy in a ...

Toxic air can inflame young brains and alter behaviour in children. Experts explain how pollution triggers neuroinflammation ...

New experiments raise important questions about what it means to die. n December 9, 2013, 13-year-old Jahi McMath was checked ...

When we breathe, one nostril is more closed than the other and so has a slower rate of airflow. That slower flow of air means ...