True suffering is tied to conscious experience, which only emerges when the higher brain becomes functionally connected.” ...

Scientists have the technology to grow humans in Petri dishes, but they say there are better uses for it: to combat aging.

Patients with spastic paraplegia type 15 develop movement disorders during adolescence that may ultimately require the use of ...

Scientists found that a single gene controls striking corn snake patterns like stripes and blotches. While essential for ...

Patients with spastic paraplegia type 15 develop movement disorders during adolescence that may ultimately require the use of a wheelchair. In the early stages of this rare hereditary disease the ...

The way DNA folds inside the nucleus of brain cells may hold the key to understanding a devastating form of brain cancer called glioblastoma, suggests a new preclinical study. The findings offer a new ...

As governments and industry move to ban the culling of male chicks, a central question continues to shape public policy, research funding and ethical debates: When can a chick embryo feel pain?

A joint study conducted by the University of Bonn and the DZNE has confirmed early-stage brain inflammation in mice.

Neuroscientists have learned that estrogen is vital to healthy brain development but that it also ... a mother’s estrogen helps organize an embryo’s neural circuits, direct the production ...

The way DNA folds inside the nucleus of brain cells may hold the key to understanding a devastating form of brain cancer ...

A new study reveals that the way DNA folds inside brain cells plays a critical role in glioblastoma, one of the deadliest forms of brain cancer.