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

Researchers in Japan built a miniature human brain circuit using fused stem-cell–derived organoids, allowing them to watch ...

MIT researchers are using living cells to target diseased brain areas and deliver tiny electronic devices that can modulate ...

An estimated 86 billion neurons in the average human brain govern our body’s functions and conjure — somehow — the human mind. C. elegans has 302 neurons in one sex and a few more in the other.

Every year, millions of lives are suddenly, swiftly transformed by a stroke, which occurs when a blood vessel travelling ...

“This is a paradigm shift,” says Donn Van Deren, PhD, postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, who ...

By editing thousands of genes in mouse stem cells, the scientists identified a list of over 300 that are crucial for neural differentiation.

This comprehensive review synthesizes a decade of human and animal research to explain how the gut and brain communicate ...

From football fields to military training grounds, head injuries are leaving lasting marks on the brain in ways we're only ...

Long before memory problems appear, your brain may already be losing neurons. That is the unsettling message from new work by ...