Scientists rebuilt human brain circuits in the lab and discovered that the thalamus acts as a central organizer of cortical wiring. The findings offer new insight into how brain networks form and why ...

Published January 7 in the journal Nature, one paper tackled the age-old problem of nature’s construction with a bit of a twist: it suggests that living networks, like our brain, may use some of the ...

A tiny roundworm has helped University of Queensland scientists uncover minuscule structures in skin tissue that may protect ...

Researchers have developed a way to grow a highly specialized subset of brain nerve cells that are involved in motor neuron disease and damaged in spinal injuries.

Stressed brain cells can survive longer by slowing sugar use, revealing a short-term protective response that later turns ...

A research team has developed a way to produce a subset of highly specialised brain neurons that centrally degenerate in motor neuron disease and are damaged in spinal cord injury, laying foundations ...

Researchers have developed a way to grow a highly specialized subset of brain nerve cells that are involved in motor neuron ...

On social media, a claim regularly resurfaces: the human brain would only reach maturity at age 25. While this simplified ...

Dr. Friese is being honored for his pioneering work discovering how inflammation is associated with nerve cell death in multiple sclerosis.

Glaucoma has long been treated as a plumbing problem of the eye, managed mainly by lowering pressure rather than protecting ...

Proteomics experiments on Drosophila reveal sex-specific effects in aging, and an important role for a protein called DIP-β.

The next time you reach for a memory or make a quick choice, a storm of tiny signals races through your brain. Scientists can ...