Melbourne researchers have uncovered a critical signaling pathway that controls the timing of brain development, shedding new ...

A human-specific gene influences brain immune cell development. These cells, called microglia, mature much slower than in ...

Tiny human brain organoids survived for years outside the body, continued to mature, and even skipped ahead through stages of ...

A scientific team has shown that, under the right circumstances, 3D cell culture models of human brain tissue, known as organoids, can express features of later-stage brain development. This ...

The human brain is often described as one of the most complex structures in biology, and much of its power comes from how ...

A lot of brain development happens early in life, but researchers don't have a strong understanding of how a baby's brain develops while they're awake. "It's such a rapid window of change for the ...

Study reveals how proteins direct nerve cell precursors to turn into specialized neurons. Brain development is a highly orchestrated process involving numerous parallel and sequential steps. Many of ...

Researchers have investigated brain development to understand how different areas of the brain become specialized in handling information such as vision, sound, touch and planning. In a new study ...

When a baby enters the world, their brain contains billions of neurons awaiting connection. The first 1,000 days of life, from conception to age two, represent a critical period where over 85% of ...

Yale School of Medicine (YSM) has been awarded a grant of nearly $25 million by the Aligning Research to Impact Autism (ARIA) ...

One aspect of this neuroplasticity is the increased “cross talk” that the teen brain experiences between its different regions. For instance, as the prefrontal cortex (the brain region that supports ...

Researchers kept human brain organoids developing for over five years, revealing prolonged maturation that mirrors human ...