The body's control organ undergoes four major transitions during a lifetime, with 'adolescence' lasting more than two decades ...

New research by neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge has identified five key stages of human brain development. The ...

Study maps five major eras of brain wiring from birth to old age, revealing the key turning points that shape how we learn, ...

Human brains go through five distinct phases of life, each defined by its own set of characteristics, according to a new ...

The data showed there is "non-linear change across development" in the brain, suggesting it does not continue on one steady ...

For the first time, scientists have used human cells to make structures that mimic the earliest stages of development, which they say will pave the way for more research without running afoul of ...

Adolescence lasts into your 30s, major new study on brain development finds - New analysis has found that the human brain ...

(Nanowerk News) Cambridge scientists have created a stem cell-derived model of the human embryo in the lab by reprogramming human stem cells. The breakthrough could help research into genetic ...

Researchers have used stem cells to develop new human embryolike structures that model the earliest stages of fetal development so realistically that they even secrete hormones that can turn a lab ...

A gene that turns on very early in embryonic development could be key to the formation of the placenta, which provides the ...

The new platform's ethically grounded approach promises to reveal much about how human embryos form during the earliest stages of pregnancy. It's one of life's most defining moments -- that crucial ...

A gene that turns on very early in embryonic development could be key to the formation of the placenta, which provides the ...