A team at Carnegie Mellon University is helping kids understand artificial intelligence with a soft, squishy, LED-lit neural ...

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

For decades, scientists have known that motor proteins like kinesin-2 ferry vital cargo along microtubule "highways" inside ...

A collection of studies that chart how mammalian brain cells grow and differentiate is a ‘very valuable’ tool for ...

Using single-cell RNA sequencing and genetic screening, the researchers identified key surface proteins that mediate ...

Cheng Lyu is the winner of the 2025 Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology for her work in understanding how neural circuits assemble with such ...

For Stephen Greene, an attorney and father of two, the first symptoms of a brain tumor were subtle — and not obviously linked. He first noticed a tingling on the right side of his tongue and a slight ...

Alzheimer's disease not only robs people of their memory but also affects mood, often causing anxiety and depression. Until now, scientists haven't fully understood how these symptoms are connected in ...

WESTWEGO, La. — Robin Phillip’s fresh haircut is dyed her favorite color — green. But beneath the dye job is a scar that runs along the side of her head, the result of two craniotomies. For years, ...

A neuron made in the lab now works almost like one in the body. A team of engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has announced the creation of an artificial neuron with electrical ...

(A) Schematic representation of the unbiased cell detection pipeline on large-scale and confocal images. Immunofluorescent images on sagittal mouse brain slices were acquired on a digital pathology ...

Once in the brain, lung cancer cells can plug themselves into the electrical circuitry there and grow, a study of mice shows. The results, published September 10 in Nature, highlight the deep and ...