Infection of the CNS stem cells seems to be primarily responsible for the generation of the brain abnormalities ... replication was slower than in mouse embryonic fibroblasts.

A small segment of human DNA boosts brain size and complexity, revealing both the origins of intelligence and its ...

Duke University Medical Center-led research has identified a human-specific DNA enhancer that regulates neural progenitor ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have shown that gonadotrophs, cells in the pituitary gland with a key role in ...

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

Researchers are getting better at growing miniature organs and embryos in test tubes or on chips. This creates new ...

In the earliest hours after fertilization, an embryo takes its first steps toward becoming a living organism by shedding maternal control and activating its own genetic program. This critical process, ...

For the first time, researchers revived fully functional mouse brain tissue from cryopreservation. The secret sauce: ...

Images reveal the shocking ways animals could be changed if gene-editing is allowed to spiral out of control.

Time-series transcriptomic analysis investigates sex differences in human fetal brain development between ... and bright field imaging of mouse embryo development reveals microstructures from ...

PME-1 is a protein that modifies other proteins by removing methyl groups, but high levels of PME-1 are observed in some diseases, including Alzheimer's disease (AD) and cancer.

Ms. Petrova is a Russian scientist who works in a lab at Harvard Medical School. She told her story through a Times Opinion ...