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Researchers have taken a major step towards realizing a new form of MRI that could record biochemical reactions in the body as they happen.

Investigators have identified a small group of nerve cells in a specific brain region of rats whose signaling activity, or lack of it, explains the vast bulk of differences in risk-taking preferences among the animals.

What Makes Your Laboratory Unique? Your people, your protocols, the work you do to change the world - and the instruments and equipment that help you to reach your goals. You shouldn't have to fit your workflows around standard equipment. Your Equipment should be adaptable to you, while operating within the safety, performance, and compliance parameters that your work requires. In short, your laboratory equipment should work the way you do.

Scientists have deleted nearly half the genes of a microbe, creating a stripped-down version that still functions, an achievement that might reveal secrets of how life works.

A new study suggests that bacteriophages made of RNA - a close chemical cousin of DNA - likely play a much larger role in shaping the bacterial makeup of worldwide habitats than previously recognized.

Robert De Niro is removing the anti-vaccination documentary "Vaxxed" from the lineup of his Tribeca Film Festival, after initially defending its inclusion.