The hippocampus is an important brain region known to support various cognitive (i.e., mental) processes, including the ...

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After centuries of mapping the human body in ever-finer detail, scientists are still making discoveries. Here we are, in 2025, and a previously unknown cellular structure that could be vital to ...

Scientists just discovered the hemifusome, a membrane-bound organelle that helps cells recycle cargo © University of Virginia School of Medicine Even after decades ...

Our brain is arguably the organ that most distinguishes humans from other primates. Its exceptional size, complexity and capabilities far exceed those of any other species on Earth. Yet humans share ...