Gut Microbes may have helped fuel the evolution of large human brains, shaping brain metabolism and gene activity, new ...

MicroRNAs, whose discovery was recognized with the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, are central regulators of gene ...

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

Researchers uncover evidence that the gut microbiome and brain connection can influence brain gene expression and neural ...

Much of the phenotypic variation that is observed within and between species is the result of differences in gene regulation: specifically when, where and how much the genes are expressed. Given the ...

The conservation of genome regulatory elements over long periods of evolution is not limited to vertebrates, as previously ...

The microorganisms in our gastrointestinal tract-the gut microbiome, can exert a profound influence on the human body, and ...

In the mice with large-brain primate microbes, the researchers found increased expression of genes associated with energy ...

Two of the traits that set modern humans apart from non-human primates are taller stature and a higher basal metabolic rate. Researchers have identified a genetic variant that contributed to the ...

A representation of single-cell RNA sequencing data from two species of worms, C. elegans (left) and C. briggsae (right). Each point represents a single cell, arranged such that cells from the same ...

A new study from Northwestern University is reshaping how scientists think about brain evolution. The research suggests that ...