Scientists at the Allen Institute, a research center in Seattle, then sliced that piece of the mouse’s brain into more than 25,000 layers, each a tiny fraction of the width of a human hair, and ...

In a scientific “first,” a tiny heart structure composed of human cells has been successfully grown within a pig embryo.

A team of scientists at Duke University made a mouse just a bit more human. They didn’t give it speech or opposable thumbs. They gave it something much smaller — a tiny stretch of human DNA ...

Putting the uniquely human version of a certain gene into mice changed the way that those animals vocalized to each other, suggesting that this gene may play a role in speech and language.

Researchers have long focused on the STING (Stimulator of Interferon Genes) pathway as a way to harness the immune system's natural defenses against ...

Mouse with human ear. It's said the camera never lies. But sometimes the caption on a photo can be wickedly misleading. Dr Karl remembers one famous instance of someone taking the Mickey.

Elon Musk says Neuralink’s first human trial participant can control a computer mouse with their brain, nearly one month after having the company’s chip implanted.But details remain sparse ...

Next month, the Academy will dutifully hand out Oscars to an array of very deserving, very human winners. But has a little gold man ever gone to someone who may not be a person at all? From ...

A Pacific pocket mouse named Pat — after "Star Trek" actor Patrick Stewart — received the Guinness approval Wednesday as the oldest living mouse in human care at the ripe age of 9 years and ...

To explore the functional implications of human NOVA1, researchers used CRISPR gene editing to create mice that expressed the uniquely human version of this protein.Within the cell, NOVA1’s job is to ...

An Israeli firm wants to replicate a successful mouse embryo experiment with human cells. The company, Renewal Bio, wants to use the technology to make "humanity younger and healthier." The use of ...

Elon Musk says Neuralink’s first human trial participant can control a computer mouse with their brain, nearly one month after having the company’s chip implanted.But details remain sparse ...