Mapping the Sense of What’s Going On Inside

Scientists are learning how the brain knows what’s happening throughout the body, and how that process might go awry in some ...

Physicists Observe a Nuclear “Memory” Thought Impossible

UT researchers have made rare measurements of exotic nuclear decay that reshape how scientists think heavy elements form in extreme cosmic events. You can’t have gold without the decay of an atomic ...
The Scientist

Feeling Asocial When Sick? A Brain-Immune Connection May Be Why

A cytokine activates a specific neural circuit that causes social withdrawal in mice when sick, offering insight into the ...
Nature

We are all mosaics: vast genetic diversity found between cells in a single person

Technical advances allow researchers to trace the genetic changes that occur over time.
Valley Breeze

One More Thing: Del Sesto is never happier than when he's creating something

Irrepressible curiosity and the magic of pure chance have a lot to do with the way Jon Del Sesto’s life and work developed ...

Growing human organs for medical implants: New method gives human stem cells an edge in chimeric embryos

Scientists have discovered a method of helping human stem cells thrive in an animal embryo—a key development in efforts to grow human organs in animals for medical transplants.
eLife

Natural xanthones as α-Mangostin induce vasorelaxation via binding to key gating residues in the S6 domain of BK channels

The present manuscript by Cordeiro et al., shows convincing evidence that α-mangostin, a xanthone obtained from the fruit of the Garcinia mangostana tree, behaves as a strong activator of the ...