Research from scientists at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have shed new light on an age-old question: what makes the human brain unique? The team's discovery comes from their ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Researchers have now discovered that HAR123, a regulatory gene sequence, is an important factor in human brain development. Even though humans are ...

The physical similarities between humans and other mammals are quite plain. We are made of the same flesh and blood; we go through the same basic life stages. Yet reminders of our shared inheritance ...

This article was co-authored by Dr. Joseph Michalski, Associate Dean at King’s University College at Western, Canada. This rather extended blog on what makes humans different first reviews a recent ...