Working memory is a cognitive function that is essential for carrying out everyday activities and temporarily retaining information.

Working memory is a cognitive function that is essential for carrying out everyday activities and temporarily retaining ...

Memories can form outside of the brain, according to new research. Non-brain cells exposed to chemical pulses similar to the ones that brain cells are exposed to when presented with new information ...

One of the most widely accepted models for how cells remember their identity may be incorrect. This is shown in a new study ...

However, details of the intervening steps, as researchers have learned in the past 65 years, are quite complex — certain cells carry the flu antigen to the immune system, specific immune cells respond ...

For decades, dogma dictated that the immune system consisted of two separate branches. Cells of the innate system respond rapidly to molecular patterns shared by a broad array of pathogens. Meanwhile, ...