The brain is often viewed as developing from a single starting pool of cells, but recent research suggests a different story.

A new study on embryonic development reveals that the brain does not arise from a single pool of cells, as previously thought ...

While one part of your brain processes these words, another part is keeping you alive, regulating your heartbeat, maintaining ...

For decades, the prevailing model held that a single kind of progenitor, or precursor, cell gave rise to the entire brain.

The research shows that the human brain is in fact two old nervous systems combined together: one primitive section which keeps us alive by regulating our heartbeat and breathing, and another which ...

Bioengineering researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a soft, thin, stretchable bioelectronic device that can be implanted into a ...

New research suggests that the human brain starts as two separate developmental systems. These findings reframe long-held ...

(Alfred Pasieka/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) The brain is an immeasurably complex organ, and we're only just scratching the surface of how it even comes into existence. In a paper published in ...

Boston--Forsyth Institute researchers have found that serotonin-the chemical substance involved in transmitting signals between neurons and which plays a role in anxiety and mood disorders-- is ...