Researchers using a portable MRI scanner found that measurable differences in brain volumes emerged at around 12 months of age, offering some of the earliest evidence yet that maternal anemia shapes ...

UCLA researchers have discovered two powerful influences that help guide how the human brain forms before birth. Radial glia, ...

Tiny human brain organoids survived for years outside the body, continued to mature, and even skipped ahead through stages of ...

Jessica Ringshaw’s research demonstrates how scientific discovery and public engagement should go hand-in-hand.

Nutrition experts suggest prioritizing balanced meals and whole milk to support children's learning, focus, and healthy ...

Neuroscientists have kept human brain organoids alive for >5 years, enabling them to study neural development over extended ...

Neurodevelopment involves the brain's formation of systems responsible for learning, memory, social skills, and overall function. Critical neurodevelopmental processes such as neurogenesis, synaptic ...

A $46 million grant from a new autism research initiative, Aligning Research to Impact Autism (ARIA), is turbocharging ...

As the human brain takes shape before birth, a remarkable type of stem cell helps give it many of the features that make it ...

The human brain undergoes significant development during the final prenatal months and through the first year of life. And while scientists have begun to map the developmental trajectories of this ...

When a baby enters the world, their brain contains billions of neurons awaiting connection. The first 1,000 days of life, from conception to age two, represent a critical period where over 85% of ...

When researchers at Lund University investigated how UM171, a molecule used to make blood stem cells multiply, works, they made an unexpected connection. The results provide new insights into how one ...