Dr. Peter Huttenlocher, a pediatric neurologist and neuroscientist whose innovative research counting billions of brain synapses revealed that brains develop rapidly in young children and later “prune” themselves as they…
New research by Daniel Lindner, a research plant pathologist at the U.S. Forest Service’s Center for Forest Mycology Research in Madison and colleague Andrew Minnis might help shed some light on the white-nose…
Article Excerpt:Research published in the American Journal of Human Genetics shows that the mixing of different cultural groups in India occurred between 4,200 and 1,900 years ago but started to decline as…
Excerpt: In a mind-control experiment that demonstrates the astonishing power of new neuroscience tools, MIT researchers planted a false memory in the mind of a mouse using genetic techniques that…
ISG faculty Dr. Stefan Timmermans describes how “giving parents a torrent of information about a child’s genetic disease risk will profoundly change the experience of bringing a new life into…
Excerpt: Genetics Are Awesome isn’t an educational visualization like the Punnett squares you used to learn about genetic inheritance in high school. Instead, photographer Ulric Collette simply took portraits of two people who are directly…