Biologist Michael Levin has spent his life trying to prove that minds show up in places we’d never think to look.

The axolotl, a salamander known for its permanent grin, does more than regrow lost legs. Laboratory injury models show it can ...

Many once believed autism wasn't caused by biology at all. Have decades of research brought us any closer to autism's cause?

Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a remarkable new 3D-printable material that behaves much like ...

Deep inside the human brain, a small gland in the middle of the forehead helps keep time. As darkness arrives, the pineal ...

From camouflage to timekeeping to wound healing, light-sensing proteins called opsins perform all kinds of jobs in nature beyond helping creatures to see ...

Spread the loveYou’ve probably heard the buzz about GLP-1 drugs – the injectables like Ozempic and Wegovy that have reshaped ...

Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia and affects millions of people worldwide. It slowly destroys memory, ...

The NIH 4D Nucleome consortium, of which this study is a part, aims to extend this kind of mapping into the fourth dimension: ...

The longevity-linked APOE2 gene appears to protect brain cells by reducing DNA damage and helping neurons recover from stress. The finding could open a new path toward treatments that mimic APOE2’s ...

Researchers posit that changes in the three-dimensional structure of DNA inside brain cells may play a key role in ...

This little-known brain disorder is currently one of the biggest challenges facing medicine where age-related diseases are ...