The human brain runs on a tight energy budget. Despite making up only 2% of our body weight, it devours around 20% of our ...

New insights have emerged into how the human brain develops. Two genes that are unique to humans work together to influence ...

Often compared to a computer, the body's most complex organ operates using a code of electrical and chemical signals. These signals transmit through wires, nodes and networks to process and store ...

The Victorian palaeontologist Richard Owen incorrectly argued that the human brain was the only brain to contain a small area ...

On this episode of Primer, we explore the world of biocomputing, where scientists are blurring the lines between the biological and synthetic.

After holding leadership roles at Zulily and Amazon, Yurcisin joined Grove Collaborative in 2023 to help revitalize the ...

The transplant came after about a decade of earlier studies and transplants by Wang and his team of gene-edited organs from ...

Leibniz Institute for Primate Research and the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics have discovered ...

Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human.

A recent study led by Google AI researchers shows that modern LLMs are very similar to the human brain in the way they ...

Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants. Researchers at Xijing ...