The next surprise was that human organoids just kept growing. Mouse organoids were done with making neurons within nine days.

“Do you know why you shouldn’t talk to strangers?” asks a police officer standing at the front of a classroom to a room full of students. Emily’s hand shoots up and the teacher encourages her to ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have uncovered a previously unrecognized mechanism by which inherited calcium ...

Scientists have created a super-map of the brain containing 30 million cells to trace the prenatal origins of diseases.

As I enter deep middle age, parenting two teenagers, I find reading about brain development more interesting. The old-school view of becoming an adult at 18 (or 21) seems simple. The more recent ...

Scientists are discovering that our tendency to develop certain phobias might be written in our DNA before we even encounter the things that terrify us. Evidence from twin studies suggests that ...

Researchers at the University of Exeter have created a detailed temporal map of chemical changes to DNA through development and aging of the human brain, offering new insights into how conditions such ...

The potential benefits of organoids for fundamental research and medicine are huge. Efforts to establish proper boundaries ...

A team of researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Texas Children's Hospital, and collaborating institutions reveals in the journal Nature a novel mechanism ...

If you develop Alzheimer's disease, you not only lose your sense of time, but you also lose your sense of place. Could time ...

Autism’s links to other brain disorders may extend beyond Alzheimer’s, with some studies pointing to a higher risk of ...