The circuits of the human brain contain more than 100 billion neurons, each linked to many other neurons via thousands of synaptic connections, resulting in a three-pound organ that is profoundly more ...

Qian-Quan Sun (right), a UW associate professor of zoology and physiology, and Weiguo Yang, a graduate student in the Neuroscience Program, check lasers during an experiment on the brain tissue of ...

The nervous system is a marvel of biological engineering, composed of intricate networks that control every aspect of an ...

Over the past 20 years, synthetic biologists have been trying to build biological circuits in living cells to enact specific behaviors such as Boolean logic gates, signal filters, oscillators, state ...