For more than a century, scientists have treated the brain as the undisputed command center of human evolution, with the rest ...

This comprehensive review synthesizes a decade of human and animal research to explain how the gut and brain communicate ...

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A sweeping genetic screen reveals how the brain is built and exposes a hidden gene behind a newly discovered childhood brain ...

A pioneering study provides new evidence that gut microbes vary across primate species and can shape physiology in ways ...

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Researchers in Japan built a miniature human brain circuit using fused stem-cell–derived organoids, allowing them to watch ...

A groundbreaking new study reveals that changes to the gut microbiome can change the way the brain works. Humans have the largest relative brain size of any primate, but little is known about how ...