BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- A European scientist who is heading up an ambitious, well-funded effort to use computers to reconstruct the human brain and replicate its functions will speak on the UAB campus ...

Since the publication of the Human Genome Project, researchers have expanded the field of genomics to probe deeper into the underpinnings of human biology and disease, including studies of the body’s ...

In the world of medical research, few journeys feel as personal and urgent as that of Dr. Alexander W. Charney. His career began with curiosity, but patient care reshaped it into a mission. A recent ...

Today British scientists at The University of Manchester made history by switching on the world’s largest “human brain” supercomputer called the “Spiking Neural Network Architecture” (SpiNNaker) ...

Researchers have used a new human reference genome, which includes many duplicated and repeat sequences left out of the original human genome draft, to identify genes that make the human brain ...