Diaz: "I've always been interested in the discovery of new molecules, especially those with unique paths and intracellular influences. This is where answers to many disease processes can be found." A ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Many universities have dedicated student-run ...

An artificial synapse, a key component of 'neuromorphic computers' that mimic not only the function but also the operating principles of the human brain, has been developed. A synapse is the junction ...

Scientists at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus have discovered a new kind of synapse in the tiny hairs on the surface of neurons. The commonly overlooked protrusions called primary cilia contain special ...

It may contain inaccuracies due to the limitations of machine translation. Director Kim Eunjoon of the IBS Center for Synaptic Brain Dysfunctions. Courtesy of IBS. A Korean research team has ...

Engineers have designed an artificial synapse in such a way that they can precisely control the strength of an electric current flowing across it, similar to the way ions flow between neurons. The ...

A team of physicists from Utrecht University in the Netherlands and Sogang University in South Korea have built an artificial synapse, the biological foundation of the human brain's ability to think ...

True multicellular animals, the eumetazoans, have the ability to make specialized cell types, and that ability appears to have come equipped with a common genetic toolkit. Those common genes extend ...

Synapses are the key to communication inside the brain. These microscopic gaps are where signals jump from one neuron to another. Your brain has trillions of them. Now, scientists have created a 3-D ...