A popular vanilla flavoring in e-cigarettes may interfere with some of the earliest steps of human development. In lab ...

The most encouraging results came from studies in mice with damaged retinal blood vessels. When the lab-grown human cells ...

Models of how the brain changes over time could help researchers to understand how diseases affect the organ later in life.

Scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School and their collaborators have created one of the most comprehensive single cell maps of the developing human brain. The atlas captures nearly every cell type, ...

Humans develop at a slower rate than other mammalian species, like mice, but scientists are still trying to understand the ...

Peppercorn-sized clumps of human brain cells grown in a lab for a record seven years aged similarly to those inside our heads ...

Scientists have kept human brain organoids alive and maturing in the laboratory for more than five years, some even reaching ...

Tal Sharf (right, senior author), Tjiste van der Molen (middle, postdoctoral researcher), and Greg Kaurala (left, staff researcher). Humans have long wondered when and how we begin to form thoughts.

In a bid to better understand, and potentially treat, a host of conditions that affect early cognition, neurodevelopment, and the brain later in life, investigators at Johns Hopkins Medicine and ...

A new atlas pairs DNA methylation with 3D genome folding in 86,689 human cells and ties disease risk to specific cell types.

Exposure to this flavor in e-cigarettes disrupts early embryonic stem cell development, posing serious potential risks to ...