A team of scientists at Duke University made a mouse just a bit more human. They didn’t give it speech or opposable thumbs.

However, there's no equivalent for the developing mouse brain ... much is known about how these cells arise in the whole brain during development, according to the researchers.

This is a further point in development than has been achieved in any other stem cell-derived model. “Our mouse embryo model not only develops a brain, but also a beating heart, all the ...

Initially, the team hypothesized that piriform cortex neurons that were active in mouse embryos would ... of neurons could influence the brain's early development. Notably, the team's findings ...

Duke University Medical Center-led research has identified a human-specific DNA enhancer that regulates neural progenitor ...

Until now, brain development was understood as happening faster in mice than in other, longer-living mammals such as primates and humans. Those studying the brain of a 2-month-old mouse, for example, ...

Short-lived neural connections in the mouse brain help prime sensory circuits ... That is why understanding early milestones of brain development is key." The hope is that by figuring out exactly ...

A small segment of human DNA boosts brain size and complexity, revealing both the origins of intelligence and its ...

The paper specifically demonstrates what goes on in the male mouse brain while engaging in sex ... “This might contribute to the development of the clinical therapy for premature ejaculation ...

Darnell said the switch to the new NOVA1 variant likely occurred between 40,000 and 200,000 years ago, altering RNA regulation and potentially changing human brain development in a ... whether the ...

For the study, researchers focused on mouse retinal ganglion cells ... “Here we show that it also applies during early brain development with subcellular precision.” In the new study, the researchers ...

Many of them play a role in brain development, as well as intellectual disability ... Oligodendrocytes (yellow) in the mouse brain, during an experiment testing the impact of the PLP1 gene on behavior ...