Researchers have developed a new tool that can screen genes involved in human development at unprecedented scale and speed, using it in a proof-of-principle study to reveal new insights into human ...

A study suggests babies’ brains recognize music from as young as three months of age, while spontaneous movements to music emerge by their first birthday and their ability to match movements to it ...

Genes associated with male reproductive biology appear to be under relaxed selective constraint in a primate species with low sperm competition.

Analysis of data across many different studies shows that children's word recognition improves continuously from infancy through age 5 years, and shows strong coupling with early vocabulary.

Although auditory encoding of music is robust early in infancy, the transformation of this input into movement patterns develops substantially over the first postnatal year, without reaching full ...

Findings suggest placental mammals that lived in China following the most recent mass extinction evolved large teeth before developing more specialized dental structures associated with different ...

Specialized anatomical structures in the mouth and feet of tsetse flies help them feed on blood from a variety of hosts.

A framework for analyzing single-cell genomics data, in which geometrical properties are harnessed to obtain insights on cellular diversity, including precise clustering, clear visualizations, and ...

The subthalamic nucleus contains subpopulations with different contributions to deliberative decision-making based on noisy evidence and reward-driven preferences.

Single neurons in mouse sensorimotor cortex are organized by their activity features into distinct subpopulations with area-spanning footprints whose boundaries align closely with anatomical and ...

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