Gut Microbes may have helped fuel the evolution of large human brains, shaping brain metabolism and gene activity, new ...
IDH-mutant glioma, caused by abnormalities in a specific gene (IDH), is the most common malignant brain tumor among young ...
New research reveals that certain brain tumors may originate silently within normal brain cells long before a tumor forms.
The first hint of a brain developed on Earth around 600 million years ago, and now, some version of the organ can be found in nearly every animal in the world. Humans have the largest brain size ...
New research has shown how brain cells acquire a cancerous mutation and spread across the cortex, opening a new path for ...
Which genes are required for turning embryonic stem cells into brain cells, and what happens when this process goes wrong? In a new study published today in Nature Neuroscience, researchers led by ...
In a new study, researchers discovered that the human brain has four pivotal periods when it goes through marked changes, sparking five "epochs" that last for years. The adolescent phase, for example, ...