Scientists are learning how the brain knows what’s happening throughout the body, and how that process might go awry in some ...

Study finds Five Major Brain Development Phases, Adulthood Actually Begins 32 The human brain doesn’t just grow up ...

Under a microscope, the newly described organism Solarion looks less like a cell and more like a tiny star, its body ringed ...

For decades, biologists treated a familiar marine invertebrate as a kind of living afterthought, a translucent tube that seemed to float through life with almost no nervous hardware. New work has ...

Mapping The Sense Of What's Going On Inside Our Body . Last year, Ardem Patapoutian got a tattoo. An artist drew a tangled ribbon on his right arm, the diagram of a protein called Piezo. Patapoutian, ...

Consistent efforts to prevent Johne’s disease in a high-yielding Wiltshire dairy herd have resulted in cases falling from a high of 25% (cows identified ...

Researchers at LMU in collaboration with the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg have discovered how ...

Scientists at EPFL have created a scalable 3D organoid model that captures key features of early limb development, revealing ...

All cells need to sense and respond to their environment, to know when to activate genes, build proteins, and carry out their ...

By contrast, glial cells seemed to be electrically silent and were dismissed as dull by most researchers. Some glia, called ...