Human heart development is largely influenced by neural crest cells, which carefully regulate a key growth signal.

Australian researchers have uncovered a crucial new mechanism that helps explain how the heart's major blood vessels form during early development, and how disruptions to this process can lead to ...

Jesse, a Tennessee caller to The Ramsey Show, had a problem many Americans would envy. His company was rewarding his strong ...

In a study published in Nature on January 28, a research team led by Eric H. Xu (Xu Huaqiang) from the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with Ma Xiong from ...

New research from the University of St Andrews has discovered a crucial piece in the puzzle of how all animals with a spine—including all mammals, fish, reptiles and amphibians—evolved. In a paper ...

Scientists rebuilt human brain circuits in the lab and discovered that the thalamus acts as a central organizer of cortical wiring. The findings offer new insight into how brain networks form and why ...

This is the mind’s game behind polarization in humans: our opinions are often less about truth and more about identity.

New research suggests pain is not a simple signal of injury but a process that unfolds across nerves, spinal cord, and brain.

Why does the face scar less than the rest of the body? New research uncovers the cellular pathway behind this difference.

Researchers at University of Tsukuba have identified a previously uncharacterized neural circuit that directly links emotional processing to arousal. In the pathway, GABAergic neurons in the bed ...