A new 3D human brain tissue platform developed by MIT researchers is the first to integrate all major brain cell types, including neurons, glial cells and the vasculature into a single culture. Grown ...

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

A new study from the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute now shows how human stem cell based therapy may help ...

The way the brain develops can shape us throughout our lives, so neuroscientists are intensely curious about how it happens.

Different populations of cells in the mouse brain, each one targeted with high specificity by one of the many new genetic tools developed at the Allen Institute. The brain is like an ...

A large genetic screen has revealed how stem cells transform into brain cells, exposing hundreds of genes that make this ...

University of Utah researchers at the Pulst-Scoles Laboratory have discovered that reducing levels of the STAUFEN-1 protein ...

A sweeping genetic screen reveals how the brain is built and exposes a hidden gene behind a newly discovered childhood brain ...

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

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

The human brain is much more flexible than we ever thought. New studies have begun to suggest that, even in adulthood, the ...

Faces are so important to social communication that we’ve evolved specialized brain cells just to recognize them, a new study ...