The brain is often viewed as developing from a single starting pool of cells, but recent research suggests a different story.

While one part of your brain processes these words, another part is keeping you alive, regulating your heartbeat, maintaining ...

For decades, the prevailing model held that a single kind of progenitor, or precursor, cell gave rise to the entire brain.

Bioengineering researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a soft, thin, stretchable bioelectronic device that can be implanted into a ...

(Alfred Pasieka/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) The brain is an immeasurably complex organ, and we're only just ...

Researchers discover why marmoset brains remain smooth, revealing how progenitor cell timing alters primate cortical folding.

Hindbrain neurons control breathing and swallowing, and a Stanford lab grew them after finding a second starter cell in the ...

Boston--Forsyth Institute researchers have found that serotonin-the chemical substance involved in transmitting signals between neurons and which plays a role in anxiety and mood disorders-- is ...

Most primate species have relatively large brains with surfaces marked by pronounced bulges and furrows. This is not the case ...

A nutrition program for pregnant women inspired by ancestral dietary patterns and adapted to locally available foods in ...

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