Duke University Medical Center-led research has identified a human-specific DNA enhancer that regulates neural progenitor ...

A small segment of human DNA boosts brain size and complexity, revealing both the origins of intelligence and its ...

A new study shows that inserting human DNA into mice grow bigger brains, offering clues to human brain evolution.

Genetic scientists have spliced human DNA into mice, resulting in rodents with increased brain mass, offering new clues to ...

Genetic mutation in mice . To figure out what this gene mutation does, the researchers used mice. They made mice that had the ...

The advantages of the mouse for behavioural studies include an extensive array of genetic technologies and an elaborate behavioural repertoire that can be used to create models of human disease.

That presented a potential problem; regulators have been strident that genetic therapies demonstrate an infinitesimal risk of altering the human germline ... Working with a mouse model of ...

A newly identified mutation helps super-sleepers get by on just four to six hours of shut-eye per night, while the rest of us ...

In the earliest hours after fertilization, an embryo takes its first steps toward becoming a living organism by shedding ...