Minimally invasive surgery and automated robot-guided surgery are likely to be performed under extreme conditions, which require new demands on intraoperative information acquisition capabilities.

Electrical brain stimulation could be the key to getting athletes back on track following anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries, new research from Edith Cowan University (ECU) has shown. ACL ...

A cubic millimeter of brain tissue may not sound like much. But considering that tiny square contains 57,000 cells, 230 millimeters of blood vessels, and 150 million synapses, all amounting to 1,400 ...

This is a whole brain reconstruction of the human structural connectome showing white matter connections between different brain regions. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the ...

This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece discusses advances in brain-machine interfaces. In 1999, I defined regenerative medicine as the ...

Ever wonder why you can’t imagine a sensation you’ve never felt? Your mind constructs visions of the future using only the ...

Piecing together the crushed skull of a fossil bird that lived alongside the dinosaurs helped researchers extrapolate what its brain would have looked like: big olfactory bulbs would have meant that ...

Mapping the fruit fly larva connectome was no easy feat. It required a transatlantic tour de force. Marta Zlatic, a neuroscientist at the University of Cambridge and coauthor of the study, previously ...

Jeholornis was a raven-sized bird that lived 120 million years ago, among the earliest examples of dinosaurs evolving into birds, in what’s now China. The fossils that have been found are finely ...