A team of over 150 scientists has achieved what once seemed impossible: a complete wiring and activity map of a tiny section of a mammalian brain. This feat, part of the MICrONS Project, rivals the ...

Professor Lars Schmitz joins WIRED to guide us through a giant tree of life mapping the evolution of eyes in the animal ...

University of Geneva is successfully participating in the prestigious ERC (European Research Council) grants scheme which encourages high-level, creative, fundamental research in all scientific ...

Evolutionary biologist Rob Brooks talks to The Conversation Weekly about AI’s potential to influence our evolution.

SHENZHEN -- Chinese scientists have, for the first time, confirmed the existence of microglia in the peripheral nervous ...

In a study published in Cell, a research team led by Prof. Li Hanjie from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology ...

Complex neural circuits likely arose independently in birds and mammals, suggesting that vertebrates evolved intelligence ...

Learn about the technological inventions that shaped the evolution of human brain, giving it unparalleled ... to the brains of more than one hundred vertebrate species, in collaboration with ...

The article “Phenotype loss is associated with widespread divergence of the gene regulatory landscape in evolution” published ... those of other reptiles and vertebrates that do have complete ...

A study published March 27 in the journal Science finds that a unique and ancient spate of genetic mutations was key to the evolution of ... In many vertebrates, overactive NRF2 triggers big ...

In vertebrates, the skeleton of different regions of the body arises from different precursor cells. Researchers at the University of Basel have now discovered that these skeletal cells do not ...