Researchers discovered that certain human brain cells evolved unusually fast, altering autism-linked gene activity.

An ambitious and revolutionary initiative aims to map every cell of all eukaryotic life on Earth. The result will be a ...

A scaling law relates the expected number of mutants to the total population size of cells in a spatially constrained but ...

When a woman becomes pregnant, the outcome of that pregnancy depends on many things — including a crucial event that happened ...

The method, known as EVOFLUx, uses natural fluctuations in DNA methylation as a kind of molecular “barcode” to reconstruct a ...

Meningiomas are the most common primary brain tumors, accounting for nearly one-third of all central nervous system (CNS) tumors.

LONDON — Could genes from the dawn of life hold the key to a stem cell revolution? A groundbreaking experiment could make it ...

New studies show that a bacterial molecule, peptidoglycan, is present in the brain and fluctuates with sleep patterns. This ...