An Iceland-based company, deCode Genetics, announced in February that it is offering a test for eight genetic variants related to prostate cancer. Altogether, the variants make 10 percent of men run ...

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Like Dumbledore’s wand, a scan can pull long strings of stories straight out of a person’s brain — but only if that person cooperates. “I thought it was fascinating,” says Gopala Anumanchipalli, a ...

UT Austin researchers created a "semantic brain decoder" that can predict thoughts when participants listen to a podcast or imagine telling a story. The decoder did not translate thoughts ...