Brain organoids, small structures grown from stem cells, are often described as simplified models of the human brain. They ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

By studying what other creatures can already achieve, researchers hope to uncover breakthroughs in human medicine and turn ...

Researchers have invented a map showing how the brain functions during decision-making; it has been described in detail in the journal Nature. The insights gathered by the team of experts have been ...

But researchers were concerned about whether this procedure might have other, less desirable effects. What happens when the right and left sides of the cerebral cortex—responsible for an enormous ...

Entamoeba histolytica is a single-cell parasite that causes intestinal disease, but sometimes invades the body, attacking cells and creating liquefying abscesses. UC Davis parasitologist Katherine ...

For obvious reasons, this biological basis of human irrationality escaped thinkers in the past. Aristotle thought that our ...

The cerebellum, a brain region located at the back of the head that has long been known to support the coordination of muscle ...

Which is why you put off firing an underperforming employee; while your neocortex realizes he’s dragging the rest of your team down, your limbic system hates the thought of confrontation. (Because ...

The world, and countless generations of interactions with it, coaxed our brains to evolve in the unique way that humans perceive reality. And yet, thanks to the past century's developments in ...

To shed new light on the contribution of different brain regions and neural circuits to specific mental functions, ...

A layer deep in the cerebral cortex, which is the innermost layer of the mammalian brain, has recently been found to play a ...