A small population of nerve cells appears to be responsible for blood flow and neural activity across the entire brain, ...

A new study published in eLife has found that a remarkably rare type of neuron acts as a master conductor for the brain’s ...

The gene editing tool known as CRISPR-Cas9 is changing what's possible for treating a wide range of diseases caused by ...

Scientists have identified a neural mechanism that could explain how a psychedelic compound reduces alcohol intake.

USC researchers built artificial neurons that replicate real brain processes using ion-based diffusive memristors. These ...

The findings may give vital clues to the exact causes of neurodegenerative brain diseases such as Alzheimer's and dementia.

Scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School and their collaborators have created one of the most comprehensive single cell maps ...

A study led by Dr. Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, group leader of the Neural Mechanisms of Perception and Memory Research Group at the Hospital del Mar Research Institute, has allowed scientists to observe ...

Summary: Scientists have built one of the most comprehensive single-cell maps of the developing human brain. The new BrainSTEM framework analyzed nearly 680,000 fetal brain cells to chart their growth ...

Lab-grown “reductionist replicas” of the human brain are helping scientists understand fetal development and cognitive ...

In a town on the shores of Lake Geneva sit clumps of living human brain cells for hire. These blobs, about the size of a ...