Stanford led research suggests the forebrain and midbrain develop separately from the hindbrain, challenging the idea that ...

Researchers discovered that vanillin used in e-cigarettes targets the TRPV4 protein, potentially disrupting human embryonic ...

The brain is an immeasurably complex organ, and we're only just scratching the surface of how it even comes into existence.

As plans for long-term missions to the Moon and Mars move forward, scientists are studying whether humans reproduce beyond Earth.

Researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine have found that the human brain developed from two distinct neural systems that evolved ...

For centuries, scientists have thought of the brain as a single, unified organ. But new research led by Stanford Medicine ...

The brain is two separate organs that work together, rather than a single unified unit, scientists at Stanford University ...

A new study led by Stanford Medicine questions the long-held idea that the human brain is a single organ. Instead, it ...

Hindbrain neurons control breathing and swallowing, and a Stanford lab grew them after finding a second starter cell in the ...

For decades, many scientists have thought that a single type of starter cell gives rise to the entire brain. But experiments now challenge that fundamental picture, providing evidence that it takes ...

As a snake embryo grows inside its egg, its increasingly long body curls into a spiral before it has muscles to move. New ...