Orangutan expert Leif Cocks combines science, philosophy and stories and offers a compelling case for a shift in how we see, ...

In a feat that seemed unachievable just a few short years ago, an international research consortium has today unveiled the ...

A consortium of scientists published the first complete map of a fruit fly's brain Wednesday in the journal Nature.

For many years, scientists have known that genetic variants, or differences in DNA code across people, play some role in ...

Since Homo sapiens appeared, brains have started to analyse themselves. And this week marks the publication of an important step towards the betterment of that understanding. Researchers have produced ...

Neuroscientists from Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have determined how a brain cell surface molecule shapes the way certain ...

F RUIT FLIES are smart. For a start—the clue is in the name—they can fly. They can also flirt; fight; form complex, long-term ...

As artificial intelligence technology grows stronger, what we known about the complexity of the human brain provides ...

For human tissues, prior experimental manipulations are impractical, and genomic alterations are employed. Somatic mutations mark subclones and their fates can be reconstructed with DNA sequencing ...