The mammalian immune system is an evolutionary wonder. It's capable of recognizing and destroying cancer cells, and it can ...

The Victorian palaeontologist Richard Owen incorrectly argued that the human brain was the only brain to contain a small area ...

The body's cells respond to stress-toxins, mutations, starvation or other assaults-by pausing normal functions to focus on conserving energy, repairing damaged components and boosting defenses.

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to understand what makes our ...

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to ...

Recent viral mutations have shown avian influenza’s adaptability to mammalian hosts, prompting infectious disease, animal ...

Researchers have mapped the long-range synaptic connections involved in vocal learning in zebra finches, uncovering new details about how the brain organises learned vocalisations such as birdsong.

The AI behind the new platform builds on two decades of neuroscience research and features a "brain programming language" ...

The Open Brain Institute (OBI) launches as a global non-profit advancing neuroscience, AI, and brain research through digital ...

The animate-inanimate category distinction is one of the general organizing principles in the primate high-level visual cortex. Much less is known about the visual cortical representations of animacy ...

Researchers have confirmed that mammalian BK ion channels regulate themselves using a “ball-and-chain” mechanism. A recent study by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine provides a detailed and accura ...

The communication system between your gut and brain is called the gut-brain axis. They’re connected both physically and biochemically in a number of different ways. They may even influence each ...