A handful of start-up firms are testing therapies that target specific epigenetic markers to treat everything from high ...

Temporal encoding of signalling dynamics is not just widespread; it offers a fundamental information-theoretic advantage in cellular communication. Recent advances in channel capacity measurement and ...

In late 2021, Amber Salzman interviewed for a job that she had no intention of taking. A relatively new start-up company, called Epicrispr Biotechnologies, was looking for a chief executive, and it ...

Digging deep into the molecular mechanisms behind ALS, researchers at the Les Turner ALS Center at Northwestern Medicine have discovered why nerve cells overfire in the disease. Not only that—they ...

Recent advances in subcellular imaging transcriptomics platforms have enabled spatial mapping of the expression of hundreds of genes at subcellular resolution and provide topographic context to the ...

Leaders at EBRAINS, a collection of tools and data resources for basic neuroscience research, are finalizing the platform’s 10-year plan amid calls to improve its usability.