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After a decade out of the spotlight, the brain cells once alleged to explain empathy, autism and theory of mind are being refined and redefined. In the summer of 1991, the neuroscientist Vittorio ...

For people with two hands, one is usually dominant. On a molecular level, earthly life takes this to the extreme. All of the DNA in living things twists to the right, whereas the protein building ...

For whatever reason, life formed on Earth with right-handed DNA and left-handed proteins. But scientists have long wondered if a mirror version of life could be created. While these “mirror cells” ...

(NewsNation) — Could “mirror life” be the start of a real-life sci-fi novel? Dozens of scientists are calling for a ban on creating “mirror life,” warning of the “unprecedented and largely overlooked” ...

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Researchers identified some 3,300 types of brain cells, an order of magnitude more than was previously known, and have only a dim notion of what most of them do. By Carl Zimmer An international team ...