Researchers say they have mapped more than 200,000 cells in a cubic millimeter of brain tissue and have traced how they're ...

By borrowing a gene from fluorescent jellyfish and inserting it into the DNA of worms ... from gross anatomy to complex circuits. In this first known neuroscience diagram, by Ibn al-Haytham ...

Based on analyses — initiated by Edwin Southern and colleagues 25 — of the influence of RNA structure ... DNA that serves as a template. Nucleotides that carry a base-specific fluorescent ...

The wiring diagram and its data, freely available through the MICrONS Explorer, are 1.6 petabytes in size (equivalent to 22 years of non-stop HD video), and offer never-before-seen insight into ...

Kanazawa University and colleagues have achieved a breakthrough in understanding sperm DNA packaging. Using high-speed atomic ...

An international research team has provided a detailed insight into how the spatial organization of genetic material is established in the cell nucleus of early embryos within the first hours after ...

One of the challenges of fighting pancreatic cancer is finding ways to penetrate the organ's dense tissue to define the margins between malignant and normal tissue.

Most cells in the human body each contain about six feet of DNA. Yet the nucleus, where DNA is coiled, is no larger than a ...

Best Dance Songs of All Time: 100 classic dance music songs, from house to techno to electronic to dubstep to disco to ...

Thanks to a mouse watching clips from "The Matrix," scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date—a diagram of the ... matching up all that anatomy with the activity ...

A new comparison and analysis of the genomes of species in the genus Malus, which includes the domesticated apple and its wild relatives, revealed the evolutionary relationships among the species and ...

What is it made of, and what is its function in living things? How do we study the molecular structure of DNA? And why do ...