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

Many brain functions, particularly the senses, are similar across different mammal species.

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

They didn’t give it speech or opposable thumbs. They gave it something much smaller — a tiny stretch of human DNA known as HARE5. And in return, the mouse grew a brain about 6.5% bigger than its peers ...

The slice of code — a stretch of DNA that acts like a dial to turn up the expression of certain genes — expanded the outer ...

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

ANALYSIS: Neuroscientist Dobromir Rahnev on whether - one day - you’ll be able to upload yourself to a computer ...

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

Hormone levels fluctuate like the tides, ebbing and flowing according to carefully orchestrated cycles. These hormones not ...

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 ...

New studies stemming from the Armamentarium consortium outline findings that advance tools based on Adeno-associated virus ...

Scientists say they've put together a molecular toolkit that could be used to treat a variety of brain diseases, possibly including epilepsy, ...