A recent study may reshape our understanding of brain evolution and open new avenues for studying neurological diseases.

Researchers at Stanford University genetically altered mice to be able to receive and function with human brain cells.

A recent study suggests that the human brain emerges from two separate organs, a discovery that may impact future treatments for neurodegenerative diseases and brain disorders.

How do you study the development of the human brain if you can’t (for rather obvious ethical reasons) directly tinker with a live one? A team at Stanford Medicine came up with an ingeniously bold ...

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have built a cross-species atlas of gene regulatory networks governing ...

Neuroscientists have made a major advance in modeling the human brain in mice, offering a new way to study conditions like ...

A single human brain cell may be far more powerful than scientists once realized. Researchers found that cortical neurons can perform remarkably complex computations, giving them capabilities more ...

Scientists have discovered a human gene with a remarkable double life: it appears to play an important role in brain cells while still retaining the ability to jump around the genome. Called BC200, ...

Scientists have debated for decades whether the human brain sprouts new neurons throughout life. What would it mean if it could — and how much evidence is enough?

Rice University has announced the creation of the Rice Brain Institute (RBI), an ambitious, interdisciplinary hub that unites faculty members across campus, including engineering, natural sciences and ...

X enotransplantation is the insertion of an organ from one species into another. When the organ is an animal’s and the recipient human (as with the transplant of pig kidneys into people whose own are ...

Scientists wired up 14 family dogs with EEG sensors and told them to wait in front of a tempting treat, and what fired up ...