New research has revealed that birds, reptiles, and mammals have developed complex brain circuits independently, despite sharing a common ancestor. These findings challenge the traditional view of ...

Stem cells have great applications in regenerative medicine. While transcription factors traditionally dominate fate determination research, recent 3D genomics reveals chromatin topology’s critical ...

The liver rarely gets the attention it deserves, yet it quietly carries out more than 500 complex functions every single day.

Two new papers describe a significant advance in understanding the complex functions of the metabolic network. Two papers published today in the journal Nature describe a significant advance in ...

A new study is the first to show that two of our most sophisticated cognitive functions, using and understanding language and being able to sense how other people feel, have distinct origins in the ...