For the past few decades, it has been possible to directly manipulate an organism’s genes early in development, to generate, for example, mice that harbour genetic modifications. Such transgenic mice ...

Some say that out of all the objects in the universe, the human brain is the most complex. Much of what makes us uniquely human — our emotions, memories, consciousness — stems from this 3-pound organ, ...

Postdoctoral researcher Kamal Shokeen at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine studies how a key protein guides retinal ...

One of the great questions of neurobiology, how the brain is built up during embryonic development, could be resolved by a young scientist. The research will focus on two key processes involved in ...