From Thomas Alva Edison’s 1898 edition phonograph to vintage cars that once were the rides of south India’s iconic movie ...

But scientists have long assumed that bacteria can’t survive in the human brain. The powerful blood-brain barrier, the thinking goes, keeps the organ mostly free from outside invaders.

Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, their findings underscore the critical role of gene expression in the evolution and advanced functionality of the human brain. Each ...

Whoever thinks research is not exciting might be in for a surprise. In 2025, we could witness genetic decoding of the human brain, collect solar energy in space, and walk across a bridge built of ...

Evolution is about more than merely changing genes. “Differential gene expression is really how human brains evolved,” Yi said. Reference: Joshy D, Santpere G, Yi SV. Accelerated cell-type-specific ...

Research shows that human brain cells, particularly glial cells, exhibit higher levels of upregulated genes, enhancing neural plasticity and development. Oligodendrocytes, a glial cell type, play a ...

The findings were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Dennis Joshy et al. 2024. Accelerated cell-type-specific regulatory evolution of the human brain. PNAS 121 (52): ...

Accelerated cell-type-specific regulatory evolution of the human brain, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2024). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2411918121 ...

I t was the summer of 2015 when former president Jimmy Carter revealed a dire diagnosis: melanoma had spread to his liver and ...

Which led me to ask: how might human evolution be altered by interactions with a world of rich AI diversity? In a paper just published in The Quarterly Review of Biology, I considered the many ways AI ...