Mini models of the human brain are revealing how this complex organ takes shape
The development of the human brain, with its extraordinary range of cognitive abilities, is an awe-inspiring feat of…
First atlas of brain organization shows development over a lifetime
The regions of the brain that act in concert change as a person matures. Credit: Microscape/SPL Scientists have…
Brain differences between sexes get more pronounced from puberty
Credit: Cavan Images/Getty Some sex differences in brain-connectivity patterns become more pronounced with age, according to new research.…
Sending babies to nursery completely reshapes their microbiomes
Infants’ microbiomes are strongly affected by what they eat and who they come into contact with.Credit: Getty A…
Some of your cells are not genetically yours — what can they tell us about life and death?
Hidden Guests: Migrating Cells and How the New Science of Microchimerism is Redefining Human Identity Lise Barnéoud, transl.…
New lab-grown human embryo model produces blood cells
University of Cambridge scientists have used human stem cells to create three-dimensional embryo-like structures that replicate certain aspects…
CellNavi predicts genes directing cellular transitions by learning a gene graph-enhanced cell state manifold
Input embeddings In CellNavi, we use single-cell raw count matrices as the only input. Specifically, the single-cell sequencing…
Real-time molecular recorders expose the inner lives of cells
Illustration: The Project Twins Cells are poor storytellers. They live complex, eventful lives — dividing, migrating, responding to…
Spatial architecture of development and disease
Bressan, D., Battistoni, G. & Hannon, G. J. The dawn of spatial omics. Science 381, eabq4964 (2023). Article …
Systematic decoding of functional enhancer connectomes and risk variants in human glioma
The study was approved by the Ethics Institutional Review Boards of the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen…
Programmable Chromosome Engineering systems enable precise DNA manipulations
A team of Chinese researchers led by Prof. GAO Caixia from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology…