Scientists have known for years that a lattice of blood vessels nourishes cells in the retina that allow us to see -- but it's been a mystery how the intricate structure is created. Now, researchers ...

From the smallest fragment of brain tissue, the intricate blueprint of the entire brain is beginning to emerge. Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine are making several time-consuming aspects of ...

Metabolism, far from being just a housekeeping function, underlies all changes in cell size and function ...

Does string theory—the controversial “theory of everything” from physics—tell us anything about consciousness and the human ...

Across a typical lifetime, the human brain does not simply grow, peak, and decline. It passes through five sweeping ...