New research reveals how a class of neurons that help coordinate communication in the brain link up with their target cells, ...

Some parts of our bodies bounce back from injury in fairly short order. The outer protective layer of the eye—called the ...

Scientists at ETH Zurich have broken new ground by generating over 400 types of nerve cells from stem cells in the lab, far surpassing previous efforts that produced only a few dozen. By ...

Research led by the SickKids Research Institute in Toronto and the University of Pennsylvania, has found that immune-related ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Scientists have reached a milestone in an ambitious initiative to chart how the many types of brain cells emerge and mature from the earliest embryonic and fetal stages until ...

IDH-mutant glioma, caused by abnormalities in a specific gene (IDH), is the most common malignant brain tumor among young ...

Researchers in Japan built a miniature human brain circuit using fused stem-cell–derived organoids, allowing them to watch ...

From Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s hand came branches and whorls, spines and webs. Now-famous drawings by the neuroanatomist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries showed, for the first time, the ...

As prominent artificial intelligence (AI) researchers eye limits to the current phase of the technology, a different approach ...

New research reveals details about how cerebral hemorrhages cause brain damage during premature birth. “Instead of remaining flexible and ready to grow into different types of brain cells, the stem ...