One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet ...

The humble planarian flatworm can regrow its brain. Here’s how this tiny animal will have you rethinking everything you ...

A new bioluminescent tool allows neurons to glow on their own, letting scientists track brain activity without harmful lasers ...

A four–amino acid peptide called CAQK has shown powerful brain-protective effects in animal models of traumatic brain injury. Delivered through a standard IV, it zeroes in on injured brain tissue, ...

Brain organoids can be a good step forward, assuming they are grown from induced human pluripotent stem cells. That allows us to sidestep ethical concerns about the use of human embryos, thereby ...

The fundamental nature of living things challenges assumptions that physicists have held for centuries.

Researchers are striving to understand the impact a phenomenon known as original antigenic sin has on immunity to the virus.

Liver disease is a major global health problem, causing over two million deaths worldwide each year. While animal models have ...

Researchers have found a way to control protein levels inside different tissues of a whole, living animal for the first time. The technological advance works while a nematode worm continues to live ...

Nature doesn’t just surprise us; it prototypes ideas we’d swear came from a movie. Some animal skills look like planned ...

They’re like living feather dusters whose mouths can see you coming. The simplest animal eyes consist of light-sensitive ...