How did the human brain become so much larger than that of our closest evolutionary relatives? Part of the answer lies not in ...

An ancient viral insertion silences LINC00662 in chimpanzee cells, while the gene is active during early human brain ...

In a very on-brand move for the 2020s, Singapore is building a “Biological Data Center” that uses millions of living human ...

A repetitive stretch of noncoding DNA helps regulate a gene active in human but not chimpanzee forebrain progenitor cells.

In an interview published in Brain Medicine, Dr. Alysson Muotri—Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the UC San Diego School of Medicine and director of the ...

A human stem-cell model recreates early yolk sac immune development and shows that a single progenitor population can ...

The brain's mechanisms for repairing injuries caused by trauma or degenerative diseases are not yet known in detail. Now, a study from the University of Barcelona describes a new strategy based on ...

Just a few weeks after conception, stem cells are already orchestrating the future structure of the human brain. A new Yale-led study shows that, early in development, molecular "traffic cops" known ...

New findings raise concerns about the potential effects of maternal COVID-19 infection on early nervous system development.

Scientists have turned blood cells from an 80-year-old into neural stem cells with a molecular age of less than 20, ...

UCLA researchers used patient-derived stem cells to model how gene variants that cause developmental and epileptic encephalopathy type 13, a rare genetic childhood epilepsy, affect different regions ...