Walk, skip or run — people travel at many speeds, but how do our minds tell the difference? Researchers in Norway have detected a subset of neurons in rats that serve as the brain’s speedometer — they ...

We began by recording neuronal activity under strict experimental control of the animal’s running speed. Rats traversed a 4 m long linear track with their body confined inside a computer-driven ...

Researchers have developed a safe and accurate 3D imaging method to identify sperm cells moving at a high speed. The new method has the potential to significantly improve IVF treatments. Tel Aviv ...

Biologists have spent generations trying to explain what controls the speed of life. You may already be familiar with the classic idea that growth rises with more nutrients and then steadies. The ...

DURHAM, N.C. – Biomedical engineers at Duke University have engineered a holographic system capable of imaging and analyzing tens of thousands of cells per minute to both discover and recognize signs ...

A turning point in cancer progression is metastasis, where cells break away from the primary tumor and travel throughout the body to colonize other tissues. Unlike lab-grown cells, which are nurtured ...

Cells in our bodies die all the time, and now we know just how fast. Scientists found that death travels in unremitting waves through a cell, moving at a rate of 30 micrometers (one-thousandth of an ...

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