In this episode, we hear about the potential of synthetic gene circuits to target cancer, a zebrafish model of cerebral small vessel disease, evidence that psilocybin may alleviate depression, a new technique to make flu vaccines more effective, and why crabs walk sideways.
The ability to record the real-time activity of specialized neurons in the brains of female mice is providing new insights into the hormonal control of ovulation.
Politicians have reduced public funding for science and dismantled scientific institutions for ideological reasons in Argentina and the United States; how should the scientific community respond to such crises?
Apparent neural encoding of future words may arise from the statistical structure of language itself, rather than from predictive computations in the brain.
Responding to reports from peer reviewers is a crucial part of scientific publishing, but early-career researchers are rarely taught about this process.
