In A Nutshell Lab-grown human brain cells spontaneously organize into precise firing sequences without any sensory experience ...

Researchers around the world are studying how the human brain achieves its extraordinary complexity. A team at the Central ...

Neural tissue engineering aims to mimic the brain's complex environment, the extracellular matrix, which supports nerve cell ...

According to the MRI brain scans of 3,802 neurotypical people between infancy and 90 years old, the architecture of the human ...

Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Tal Sharf's lab used organoids to make fundamental discoveries about human ...

STANFORD, Calif. -- For decades researchers have been peering into the human brain, trying to unlock the secrets of conditions ranging from autism to epilepsy to mental illness. But now, instead of ...

The same brain cells linked to disorientation in Alzheimer's disease have been preserved—and even slightly increased—across ...

"One Hand Clapping" draws from neuroscience, evolution, philosophy and a rich tapestry of cultural references to examine how ...

What unique processes conspire to create a healthy, functional human brain? How can we be so genetically similar to, say, chimpanzees, and yet be light-years more sophisticated cognitively and ...

A group at UTHSC led by Colleen Jonsson has put human brain cells on gumstick-sized chips, infected them with Venezuelan and ...

Diesel exhaust particles can disturb the function of human brain immune cells, known as microglia, according to a recent ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have used a "zap-and-freeze" technology to watch hard-to-see brain cell ...