Stories by Bahar Gholipour

Some medical schools are turning to virtual reality instead of dissection

Stimulating nerves in the spleens of mice with ultrasound reduced their inflammatory responses and arthritis symptoms

Studies of patients with unusual neurological conditions reveal brain networks that contribute to feelings of agency

Milena Canning can see objects only if they are moving, hinting at the inner workings of our visual system

Software lets scientists explore the brain in 3-D and perform “virtual dissections”

Babies develop a preference for face-like light patterns even before birth

Emerging technologies in speech generation raise ethics and security concerns

The process keeps the attic of your mind well organized

Most of the candidate genes play roles in cellular processes also implicated in intellectual disability   

More than two million healthy people played a game that could detect declining navigation skills, a hallmark of Alzheimer’s

Neuroscientists begin to understand how the brain controls its own memory center

A new platform allows users to mix and match 32 aromas and then tag photographs with the result

The organs, grown from the patients' own cells, are showing normal functions for the four young women

For people aged 50 to 65, a high-protein diet increased the risk of cancer fourfold, comparable to the risk associated with smoking

The large, 25-year study suggests that women under 60 do not benefit from yearly breast cancer screening

Most supplements do not prevent chronic disease or death, their use is not justified and they should be avoided

A system based on weather forecasting predicts the peak of seasonal flu weeks in advance, enabling health officials to prevent new infections

The hormone has the ability to boost activity in the brain area linked to social behavior and could thus lead to more effective treatment

The explosive growth of the human population—from 2.5 billion to 6 billion since the second half of the 20th century—may have already started changing how infectious diseases emerge

Women who had the highest levels of phthalate metabolites in their urine had a risk of preterm birth that was two to five times higher compared with women who had the lowest levels

Researchers found a strategy of paying living donors that would save the health system $340 over the lifetime of each patient

Some of the injuries are so new that they currently lack names in the medical literature

Experts are calling for a consensus on laws concerning postmortem sperm retrieval