Tay-Sachs and Sandhoff diseases, genetic disorders affecting the brain, have no effective treatment and are typically fatal ...

A 500-million-year-old sea creature called Mollisonia shared a similar brain structure to modern spiders, suggesting that ...

Named 'Dehnel's phenomenon' after Polish zoologist August Dehnel, this shrewd trick for survival can cause the tiny 5 to 12 gram (0.2 to 0.4 ounce) mammal to shed up to 18 percent of its weight as ...

Scientists at Johns Hopkins have grown a first-of-its-kind organoid mimicking an entire human brain, complete with ...

The first brain-like mass of neurons likely evolved at the front end of a long, thin, worm-like animal. “Everything else that descended from that is a descendent of that neural structure, we think.” ...