Scientists have reconstructed the head of an ancient human relative from 1.5 million year-old fossilized bones and teeth. But ...

The human brain is a fascinating and complex organ that supports numerous sophisticated behaviors and abilities that are ...

The genetic heritage is not a simple, static list inside the cell nucleus. It unfolds into a dynamic architecture whose ...

Organoids are bits of neural tissue that model human brain development. Their use in science makes some uneasy, in part because the brain is so closely tied to our sense of self.

Tiny lab-grown brains are offering an unprecedented look at how schizophrenia and bipolar disorder disrupt neural activity.

For over a century, Alzheimer's disease (AD) has been considered irreversible. Consequently, research has focused on disease ...

In a landmark effort to understand how the physical structure of our DNA influences human biology, Northwestern investigators and the 4D Nucleome Project have unveiled the most detailed maps to date ...

Neural and computational evidence reveals that real-world size is a temporally late, semantically grounded, and hierarchically stable dimension of object representation in both human brains and ...

A 1.6-million-year-old Ethiopian skull blends ancestor and descendant features, rewriting the origin story of Homo erectus.

Organoids cultured on a bone scaffold created a vascularized model of the human endosteal niche, paving the way for more ...

Third are sensory reconstruction interfaces, such as restoring hearing or vision. For patients who have lost sensory input, ...

When studying how fossil hominids moved, researchers usually analyze the morphology of bones—which is crucial for ...