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In her time at Duke, Khanh Vien figures she’s dissected close to 10,000 fly brains. For her PhD she spent up to eight hours each day peering at baby flies under the microscope, teasing out tiny brains ...

Dissecting brain size and layering effects Next, Zheng and his team turned off p53, a protein that normally slows down cell proliferation and makes damaged cells self-destruct. They found brain size ...

Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing have broken new ground with their recent work examining the prefrontal cortex at the single cell level during human fetal development. The ...

Dissecting the Genius of Einstein's Brain When it comes to brilliance, do exceptional brains exist? To find out if there is a link between brain structure and genius, scientists look to the gray ...