Neal D. Amin is in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA, and in the Stanford Brain Organogenesis Program, Wu Tsai Neurosciences ...

Helen Vuong receives funding from NICHD. When a fetus is developing in the mother’s womb, it is essential that the fetus receives the correct nutrients and protection during this critical ...

A new study from the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) in London, UK reveals how ancient viral DNA once written off as ...

A novel reversible, noninvasive technique to observe neuron formation and firing in juvenile mice has been developed. During childhood and adolescence, our brain goes through a lot of changes. But ...

Computers have been around since the end of World War II. In order to use most of them, you had to learn fancy computer languages or use stacks of cards with holes punched into them or reel after reel ...

A research team showed that, contrary to current models, one early embryonic cell dominates lineages that will become the fetus. “They are not identical,” said Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, a ...

During development of the digestive system, a complex network of nerves forms around it, creating a "second brain" - the ...