As the weaknesses of biological psychiatry grow, the field must consider evolving toward what works: less DSM focus, ...

Artificial intelligence is rapidly learning to autonomously design and run biological experiments, but the systems intended to govern those capabilities are struggling to keep pace. AI company OpenAI ...

Developmental biology is the branch of biological sciences that investigates the processes by which organisms grow, differentiate, and acquire their form from fertilization to adulthood and often ...

Abstract: Owing to pronounced inter-individual variability in biological signals, transfer learning has emerged as a widely used strategy to reduce calibration requirements for new users. Among the ...

Implemented a decade ago, the Sex as a Biological Variable policy, or SABV, addressed an important shortcoming: Evidence had shown that diseases and drugs can in some instances affect women and men ...

In a previous post, I address the question of why so many battered women stay in their abusive relationships. (Answer: So that they could produce violent sons with the abusive husbands, who will grow ...

A variety of new research tools have been developed by different teams around the world, and many are now available online for free use. These atlases explore many health and biomedical research ...

In tonight's Health Beat, there's good news for people who take daily multi-vitamins. It appears the supplements slow the markers of biological aging. That's according to a new study published this ...

Summary: For the last century, music was largely viewed as a cultural invention—a “luxury” of human civilization. However, new research argues that humans are fundamentally “musical animals.” The ...

Music makes people move and groove, often in surprisingly involuntary ways. As it turns out, we even blink in time to the beat, researchers report in PLOS Biology. “Our eyes—which we usually think of ...

To learn more about our editorial approach, explore The Direct Message methodology. A large meta-analysis has landed on a deceptively simple finding: the relative lengths of your index and ring ...