This study presents SynaptoGen, a differentiable extension of connectome models that links gene expression, protein-protein interaction probabilities, synaptic multiplicity, and synaptic weights, and ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Carlos Gershenson, Binghamton University, State University of New York (THE ...

In the time it takes to process thousands of tips and chase down leads, serial offenders can strike again. That's why forensic expert David Mittelman is arguing the rapid DNA breakthroughs in the ...

It took nearly 28 years for police in Prince George’s County, Maryland, to determine the identity of the man detectives say killed 50-year-old Sherry Crandell back in 1998. The case had gone cold ...

Summer McKesson struggled to breathe for years. Doctors told her it was because her blood would not stop clotting – and they couldn’t figure out why. A single clot alone can be lethal; but the ...

Children as young as 4 years old are capable of finding efficient solutions to complex problems, such as independently inventing sorting algorithms developed by computer scientists. The scientists ...

The Y chromosome, the male relation genetic signature, has been a mystery to scientists for centuries. It’s the most repetitive and complex region of the human genome, and never before was it possible ...

Police are investigating a shooting that left one man dead and another hurt outside a strip mall in north Phoenix. One man has died, and another is hospitalized after a shooting in north Phoenix early ...

PHILADELPHIA -- A cold case, involving the death of a 4-year-old boy, may now be solved after five decades. Police in Fairfax County, Virginia, say genetic testing has identified the body of Carl ...

After finding the homeschooling life confining, the teen petitioned her way into a graduate class at Berkeley, where she ended up disproving a 40-year-old conjecture. It’s not that anyone ever said ...