Brinicles and the Origin of Life
Extraordinary tubes of ice that grow down into the ocean from ice sheets could be as significant for the origin of life as hydrothermal vents, say chemists
Biomedicine
Why Obama's Brain-Mapping Project Matters
Obama calls for $100 million to develop new technologies to understand the brain.
The Cost of Dementia: Worse Than We Thought
A new study shows that dementia will have a crippling impact on the U.S. economy.
Scientists Use MRI to Glimpse the Dreaming Mind
Scientists use a computer model to predict dream imagery from MRI scans.
Device Finds Stray Cancer Cells in Patients’ Blood
A microfluidic device that captures circulating tumor cells could give doctors a noninvasive way to diagnose and track cancers.
Messenger RNAs Could Create a New Class of Drugs
New partnerships could help bring a novel class of biopharmaceutical to patients.
Network Theory Approach Reveals Altitude Sickness to be Two Different Diseases
When the symptoms of altitude sickness are treated as a network, two distinct clinical syndromes emerge, say physicians.
How to Make a Computer from a Living Cell
Genetic logic gates will enable biologists to program cells for chemical production and disease detection.
