For the first time, University of Chicago researchers, using a newly developed technique, report that a molecular mechanism involved in formation of limbs and other body structures is also used to ...

Wu Ma, Ph.D., at the ATCC and his colleagues at the NIH and the Naval Research Laboratory recently succeeded in creating a 3-D, functioning cerebral cortex model from rat embryonic neural ...

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The cerebral cortex is your brain’s outermost layer. It has a wrinkled appearance due to the grooves and folds that increase its surface area. Here, we look at the anatomy of the cerebral cortex and ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Scientists showed that it’s possible to reproduce an entire cerebral cortex inside one of the world’s fastest computers. The model represents the ...

The cerebral cortex is the largest part of a mammal's brain, and by some measures the most important. In humans in particular, it's where most things happen-like perception, thinking, memory storage ...

The cerebral cortex of your brain is the outermost layer. It's the part of the brain that appears wrinkled because it has a lot of folds. Your cerebral cortex is divided into two hemispheres. Each ...