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

The human brain isn’t a blank slate waiting to be written by experience, according to research that challenges the ...

Rutgers neuroscientist Peng Jiang and his neuroscience colleague Mengmeng Jin have made a discovery they say could reshape ...

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

Hypertension begins harming the brain surprisingly early, even before measurable blood pressure increases. Key cells related ...

Scientists discovered that lowering a specific molecule helps microglia switch into a protective state that quiets brain ...

Robots that can sense and respond to the world like humans may soon be a reality as scientists have created an artificial ...

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

A lightning-fast imaging method is exposing the hidden mechanics of brain-cell communication and offering new clues to Parkinson’s origins.

New research using human brain organoids shows that early neural activity follows structured, time-based patterns long before sensory experience begins.

Humans have long wondered when and how we begin to form thoughts. Are we born with a pre-configured brain, or do thought ...

In Alzheimer’s disease, which is the most common cause of dementia, microglia (the immune cells of the brain) can behave in very different ways. At times, they help protect the brain, and at other ...