A combination of factors, from oxytocin release as an indicator of emotional investment to cortisol and other hormones that correlate with attention, can forecast what people will do after an experience.

Suppressing the natural age-related increase in neuronal excitation lengthens the lives of worms, and there are indications that the same may be true for mice and humans.

The advisors’ recommendations follow news of ethically dubious gene-editing work carried out by He Jiankui late last year.

A perception of sustained focus may actually be the result of cycles of fluctuating rather than continuous neural activity, according to new behavioral and neurological data from studies in humans and macaques.

Researchers directly recorded neural activity in both sides of the brain’s cortex during the movement of only one arm in humans.

The hybrid cells promote tumor heterogeneity and possible metastasis, a new study in mice and humans shows.

Neurons of the embryonic subplate don’t die as scientists had thought.

Species with larger pancreatic cells tend to have shorter lives, according to a study.