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 ...

Boost Neuroscience is a “stealth” biotech company that has developed a proprietary synapse network platform based on the work of Nobel Laureate Dr. Thomas Südhof, M.D. Boost was spun out of Stanford ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...