A paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution finds that the relatively high rate of autism-spectrum disorders in humans is ...

Researchers discovered that certain human brain cells evolved unusually fast, altering autism-linked gene activity.

A team from the University of Illinois has uncovered surprising evolutionary links between the genetic code and tiny protein ...

Scientists have identified tubulin structures in primitive Asgard archea that may have been the precursor of our own cellular ...

Summary: A new study suggests that autism may be linked to the rapid evolution of brain cell types unique to humans. Researchers found that outer-layer neurons in the human brain evolved far more ...

High school textbooks may frame evolution as a thing of the past, but it is very much alive, said Dr. Arkhat Abzhanov, a ...

Globally, autism affects about 1 in 100 children, according to the World Health Organization. In the U.S., the rate is closer to 1 in 31, or 3.2%. That’s far higher than what researchers observe in ...

An international team led by the Clínic-IDIBAPS-UB along with the Institute of Cancer Research, London, has developed a new ...

Ants have hundreds of smell detectors but use only one per neuron. Scientists found how they do it, keeping their signals ...