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A 3D model of a human embryo reveals the biological processes that unfold in early development.

New findings call into question a fundamental assumption about how genes are regulated.

An online resource reveals all major cell types in the developing human brain during the period in which autism is thought to arise.

Sleeping zebrafish show two patterns of neuronal activity that are analogous to those in people.

Two new maps show the entire nervous system of the adult roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans.

A new technique enables scientists to isolate, and chart gene expression in, tens of thousands of cells at once.

The brain areas involved in mice’s ultrasonic vocalizations may not be the same as those that govern human speech.

A novel approach to microscopy reveals the sequences and spatial arrangement of DNA within cells.

A browser-based platform simulates functional neuronal circuits in the brain regions of several species.

A new method enables scientists to grow organoids that reliably reproduce the diversity of cells at the brain’s surface.