1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (529+ words) Neuroscientists can now record electrical storms of activity from tens of thousands of neurons at once, but a stubborn bottleneck has long stood between the raw data and discovery: turning enormous three-dimensional calcium imaging videos into clean, trustworthy lists of…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (86+ words) In a discovery that offers one of the clearest snapshots yet of sex chromosomes caught in the act of being born, researchers in China have mapped the earliest stages of X and Y chromosome evolution in the darkbarbel catfish (Tachysurus…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (104+ words) Variants in a single “master switch” gene called NR5A1 have long been known to disrupt male sexual development, but why one child is severely affected while another with a similar mutation escapes with milder features has remained one of the most…...