Starting with the elucidation of its structure by Watson and Crick (PDF) in 1953, medicine has been captivated by the power of DNA, by the ability to understand our health and treat disease based on ...

Obesity has long been acknowledged as a risk factor for a wide range of diseases, but a more precise link between obesity and Alzheimer's disease has remained a mystery—until now.

Comprehensive identification of viral proteins encoded by viral genes is required to understand the pathophysiology of viral infections. A research team led by Professor Yasushi Kawaguchi of the ...

In a recent study published in Nature Communications, researchers performed high-resolution, micro-electrocorticographic (µECoG) neural recordings for speech decoding to improve speech prostheses.

Deciphering the entire human genome provides a tool that will be at least as powerful for medicine as splitting the atom, said the scientist who ran the massive public-funded genome effort, and will ...