According to the National Institutes of Health, olfaction is possibly the oldest sense. Evidence exists of a rudimentary sense of smell in prokaryotes, single-celled organisms that lived in the ...

What if humans could see in the dark like owls, hear ultrasonic sounds like bats, or sense heat like snakes? Imagine a world where our senses were as powerful as the animal kingdom’s. This ultimate ...

Rice lab pioneers an assembly kit for synthetic sense-and-respond circuits in human cells. Rice University bioengineers have ...