What happens when scientists start changing the brain—the very system through which an animal's mental states are expressed in behavior?

Scientists at Stanford have grown human brain tissue inside mice, and in some of the animals, this tissue now accounts for half the brain by volume. The point of the experiment published in Nature is ...

Bone is never finished. Long after a skeleton reaches its adult size, the tissue continues to dismantle and rebuild itself, ...

Researchers have figured out how to temporarily look straight through a living brain tissue with minimal invasiveness and interference in its processes. Japanese researchers at Kyushu University ...

To address the challenge of controlling protein activation in living animals for gain-of-function studies, researchers from Peking University led by Professors Chen Peng and Wang Chu recently ...