A team of scientists at Duke University made a mouse just a bit more human. They didn’t give it speech or opposable thumbs.

Scientists at the Allen Institute, a research center in Seattle, then sliced that piece of the mouse’s brain into more than 25,000 layers, each a tiny fraction of the width of a human hair ...

We don't always understand our emotions, but we couldn't lead normal lives without them. They steer us through life, guiding ...

A new study shows that inserting human DNA into mice grow bigger brains, offering clues to human brain evolution.

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

“The human brain is another factor of 1,500 or so larger than a mouse brain, and so that brings a whole host … of technical and ethical barriers to doing that,” he said. However, it might be ...

The body’s pathogen fighters can act as surveillance forces that ferry information from the gut and fat deposits to the brain ...

A team of more than 100 scientists recorded the cellular activity and mapped the structure in a cubic millimeter of a mouse’s brain.Credit... Supported by By Carl Zimmer The human brain is so ...

and the researchers behind this project say that the mouse brain is similar enough to the human brain that they can even extrapolate things about us. A cubic millimeter sounds tiny—to us ...

The researchers call it a foundational step, like how the Human Genome Project that provided the first gene mapping eventually led to gene-based treatments. Mapping a full mouse brain is one next ...

The cerebral cortex is the brain's outer layer ... While there are notable differences between mouse and human brains, many organizational principles remain conserved across species.