A decades-old picture of how the brain builds its most complex structure turned out to be wrong in a fundamental way: the cerebral cortex doesn't grow from one flexible stem cell population that ...

Just a few weeks after conception, stem cells are already orchestrating the future structure of the human brain. A new Yale-led study shows that, early in development, molecular "traffic cops" known ...

However, accessing and analyzing certain cell types, such as neurons located deep within the brain, have been challenging. The conventional approach to generating induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS ...