In cell culture labs around the world, human brain organoids live out their short lives as neural guinea pigs, testing the effects of diseases, toxins, and new pharmaceuticals. But they may soon be on ...

Microglia are the brain’s most abundant immune cells. They protect against invading threats, remove damaged neurons and help shape neural circuits as the brain develops. Scientists at Columbia’s ...

Over a decade ago, scientists redefined how to study organ development by generating seemingly unremarkable clumps of cells. They dubbed them organoids: organ-like microstructures produced using stem ...

Ancient remains from Vietnam suggest diseases like yaws may have been passed from mother to child thousands of years ago, a ...

Mount Ida on Crete, known to locals as Psiloritis, is the location where, according to Greek mythology, Zeus was born.

New technology may make it easier for men with extremely low sperm counts to have biological children. By Andrew Zaleski The hardest part of Dr. Zev Williams’s job as a fertility physician is telling ...

New research hints that some living people inherited a gene variant from Neanderthals that has made them slightly taller and ...

Verheij syndrome is a rare genetic disorder caused by the impairment of splicing, a critical process in RNA processing. Using the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans, researchers at the Max Planck ...

I teach a university course called Hormones and Behaviour. What surprises students is that biological sex is not produced by a single switch. What surprises me is that many students have never been ...

Scientists may have uncovered evidence that a mammal ancestor was giving birth to live young 236 million years ago. A fossilized cynodont showed a neonatal growth line and an unusually large birth ...