Browsing: Brain

“My goal is really modest: I want to have the biggest impact on human suffering ever before,” says Lou Rees, co-founder of the biotech company Vaxxinity.…

Fragments of mitochondrial DNA can be added to the cell’s main genomewir0man/Getty Images Mutations in which DNA from energy-producing mitochondria is mistakenly added to a cell’s…

When I was asked to write this article, my heart started pounding, my hands started shaking, my mind went into overdrive, and I came up with…

This image is This brain painting was destined for a gallery, but it started as a tiny slice of a woman’s brain. In 2014, a tiny…

This image is This brain painting was destined for a gallery, but it started as a tiny slice of a woman’s brain. In 2014, a tiny…

Some people in comas can imagine themselves swimming or walkingKenzo Tribouillard/AFP via Getty Images As many as one in five people in a coma may be…

ADDICTIVE STOCK CREATIVES/Alamy; AdoBe Stock Kathy Schwartz had been sober for 10 years, but battling cravings was a daily struggle. “They were always in my head,”…

Could quantum interactions help keep brain cells synchronized?Andriy Onufrienko/Getty Images Nerve fibres in the brain can generate pairs of particles that are linked by quantum entanglement…

People with body dysmorphic disorder appear to have altered activity in brain pathways involved in attention and cognition, which may explain why they focus excessively on…

I lost to a cyborg. When I played the online game WebGrid, using my finger on my laptop’s trackpad to click squares that appear unpredictably on…