The study used large-scale CRISPR gene-editing technology to systematically determine which genes are required as embryonic ...

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It is a central question in neuroscience to understand how different regions of the brain interact, how strongly they "talk" ...

The National Institutes of Health is backing doctoral student Jessica Smith’s commitment to improve access to specialty care, ...

A global research team has mapped genes crucial to early brain development, uncovering one linked to a previously unknown ...

For years, we've thought of autism as lying on a spectrum, but emerging evidence suggests that it comes in several distinct ...

An international research team identified hundreds of genes essential for the development of brain cells, including one gene ...

A sweeping genetic screen reveals how the brain is built and exposes a hidden gene behind a newly discovered childhood brain ...

Which genes are required for turning embryonic stem cells into brain cells, and what happens when this process goes wrong? In ...

Scientists around the world joined forces to complete the world's first step-by-step "brain development map" showing how a mammalian brain is built. Covering everything from lab mice to humans, the ...