A new study suggests that children of mothers who had COVID-19 during pregnancy are at 29% higher risk of neurodevelopmental ...

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Spaceflight rewires the human body. Muscles shrink, bones thin and fluids shift towards the brain – but these changes may ...

Researchers at the VIB-UAntwerp Center for Molecular Neurology have visualized how brain network development is altered in a ...

Building the economic base in the High Plain starts with human capital moving in the right direction, Dave Bergmeier writes.

Using single-cell RNA sequencing and genetic screening, the researchers identified key surface proteins that mediate ...

The United States benefits enormously from the biomedical research ecosystem. Research institutions provide numerous rewarding jobs to local economies, spur local economic activity, provide the basis ...

Brain growth and maturation doesn't progress in a linear, stepwise fashion. Instead, it's a dynamic, choreographed sequence ...

Your baby’s brain continues to develop in the coming weeks, endowing him with a remarkable range of involuntary movements like stretching, yawning, and sucking by the end of the first trimester and ...

For the first time, a drug shows effectiveness in adult human brain cells — an achievement long thought impossible.

In the new study, researchers demonstrated that the human brain falls asleep abruptly, rather than gradually, with a "tipping point" marking the transition from wakefulness into sleep. They were then ...