Human navigation turns out to be less like following a static map and more like tuning a control knob inside the brain. New ...

Brain scans of thousands of people revealed that the human brain has five distinct eras, with turning points in the way it is ...

Zooming in on the auditory cortex, the researchers found three unique sets of neurons that light up while we listen to music. Two sets of neurons encode absolute pitch (individual musical notes) and ...

Researchers created pea-sized brain structures from stem cells to study neural firing patterns, correctly identifying bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.

Researchers at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience have become the first to fully characterize cell activity from a little relay station in the center of the human brain. This aids our ...

Study finds CRISPR/Cas gene editing causes “chromatin fatigue” – another surprise mechanism by which it can produce unwanted ...

Researchers suggest that MultiCell could potentially be used to discern early patterns of disease, such as in asthma.

After 10 years, members of the 4D Nucleome consortium have successfully completed the first phase of a project that aims to ...

At TU Wien, researchers are developing three-dimensional (3D) printing techniques that can be used to create living ...

The Phase 1 study is designed to evaluate the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamic activity of ACCG-2671 in both healthy volunteers and individuals with obesity. The study will ...

Researchers used miniature human brains grown in the lab to uncover why certain genetic mutations lead to abnormally small ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Scientists in the UK have taken the first steps in a new programme to create whole human genomes from ...