The signals that drive many of the brain and body's most essential functions—consciousness, sleep, breathing, heart rate and motion—course through bundles of "white matter" fibers in the brainstem, ...

SINGAPORE – Safeguards and upcoming new laws in Singapore will ensure that genetic information from patients will not be available to their medical insurance company, the Ministry of Health (MOH) has ...

There are hundreds of cell types in the human body, each with a specific role spelled out in their DNA. In theory, all it takes for cells to behave in desired ways—for example, getting them to produce ...