How does a single cell reliably build one of the most complex structures known in nature? New research suggests the answer ...

Neuroscientists propose a new theory of brain development where cells organize based on lineage rather than long-range signals.

Your brain begins as a single cell. When all is said and done, it will house an incredibly complex and powerful network of some 170 billion cells. How does it organize itself along the way? Cold ...

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory postdoc Stan Kerstjens and colleagues have devised a new theory for how the brain organizes ...

The formation of a part of the human brain responsible for regulating vital functions is triggered in an identical way in the sea lamprey, a new study has found. The discovery suggests that we’re ...

In DNA, retrotransposons can move around and insert themselves into other parts of genomes with a kind of copy and paste mechanism. Most have lost this ability in humans, but they still make up a ...

518-million-year-old fossil reveals vertebrates once had four eyes and extra organs that later shaped evolution.

Vertebrates have extremely different brain sizes: even with the same body size, brain size can vary a hundredfold. As a rule, mammals and birds have the largest brains in relation to their body size, ...

Researchers found that vertebrate eyes - including humans’ - began as brain tissue from a single ancestral light-sensing organ.