Institute offers data from atlas of mouse brain genome
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The Allen Institute for Brain Science has released a major chunk of data from its mapping of the mouse brain genome, hoping the information will help researchers understand how the human brain works.
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Manchester scientists pinpoint a part of the brain they think plays a major role in understanding concepts.
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Researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have compiled the first atlas showing the locations of crucial gene regulators, or switches that determine how different parts of the brain develop - and, in some cases, develop abnormally or malfunction.
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US researchers say that they have found sperm nursery cells in mice, grown them in lab dishes and used them to father baby mice. They say the development could lead to easier ways to genetically manipulate
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The first complete map of protein interactions in human cells could lead to better treatment for breast cancer.
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Blog: Mapping software for modeling the path of infectious diseases made available as open-source.
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A new database of tree genes has been released by Oregon and Swedish researchers in an effort to speed up basic and commercial research.
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Psychotic mice that flee other mice may offer insights into diseases such as schizophrenia, US researchers say. The genetically engineered mice have mutations in two key genes that make them suffer from psychosis
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WALTHAM, Mass., Feb. 27  /PRNewswire/ -- Researchers in MIT's Computational and Systems Biology Initiative (CSBi) are using Interactive Supercomputing Inc.'s (ISC) Star-P(TM) software to create new biological models that may someday yield new drug discoveries.
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Next-generation sequencing uncovers disease-causing microbes.
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An international team of scientists unveiled on Wednesday a new human genetic map, or "book of life," that fills in missing pages and chapters to explain how genes are involved in common diseases.
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A new $8.5 million Cardiovascular Research Grid is being developed by Johns Hopkins University, Ohio State University and the University of California, San Diego as part of an effort to better share health data.
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An elite group of researchers wants to create a map of how your brain is wired. To do it, they've built a custom robot that peels 3-D brains like an apple, and pushes the resulting brain "tape" through an electron microscope.
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Interactive, detailed maps of the human brain and genome will spur new discoveries.
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Turning off a gene that has been associated with Alzheimer's disease made mice smarter in the lab, researchers said on Sunday in a finding that lends new insight on learning and may lead to new drugs for memory problems.
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A team of researchers from The Scripps Research Institute was able to preserve visual function in mice that were genetically predisposed to developing a profound degenerative disease that destroys their retinas.
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Symptoms of mental retardation and autism have been reversed for the first time in laboratory mice.