Brain waves can tell us how much pain someone is in Brain signals can be used to detect how much pain a person is experiencing, which could overhaul how we treat certain…

I just met the founders of a would-be longevity state My journey to Zuzalu wasn’t straightforward. My 3 a.m. train to the airport was canceled, and my flight was delayed. The weather…

A soft e-skin mimics the way human skin can sense things It was created by a team of researchers from Stanford University, who implanted soft e-skin electrodes in the brains of rats…

Why tiny viruses could be our best bet against antimicrobial resistance In 2010, Lilli Holst, an undergraduate student at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa, took part in a project designed…

This new genome map tries to capture all human genetic variation The reason a reference genome is important is that when a new person’s genome is sequenced, that sequence is projected onto…

Brain surgery on a fetus Her parents signed up for a clinical trial of an in-utero surgical treatment to see if doctors could intervene before any of these outcomes materialized. It seems…

Doctors have performed brain surgery on a fetus in one of the first operations of its kind Her parents signed up for a clinical trial of an in-utero surgical treatment to see…

Brain scans can translate a person’s thoughts into words The researchers also showed the participants short Pixar videos that didn’t contain any dialogue, and recorded their brain responses in a separate experiment…

How bugs and chemicals in your poo could give away exactly what you’ve eaten It was tricky to find specific bugs associated with specific foods, but the presence of one particular microbe…