How can a brain as sophisticated as ours arise from a single cell? This question, long at the heart of neuroscience research, ...

How does a single cell reliably build one of the most complex structures known in nature? New research suggests the answer may not depend solely on chemical signals, as long assumed.

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have created the first detailed map showing how genetic activity is controlled in individual cells of the adult human brain and spinal cord. The study, published ...

A large-scale atlas of mouse brain cells has revealed that aging does not affect all brain cell types equally. Some cell populations show dramatic shifts in gene activity between youth and old age, ...

A chronological map of the fetal brain reveals when key cells emerge and provides clues about autism and cancer.

This article describes an automated brain organoid creation workflow using the CellXpress.ai system, beginning with iPSCs and ...

Neurodegenerative diseases affect more than 57 million people globally. The incidence of these diseases, from Alzheimer's to Parkinson's to ALS and beyond, is expected to double every 20 years. Though ...

A pair of new studies have provided fresh evidence in the long-running scientific debate—and the result could be ...

Researchers discover the SELK neuron, a single-cell decision-maker in fruit flies that weighs sweet vs. bitter signals to determine whether to eat or flee.

Scientists have successfully connected living human brain cells to a computer system and taught them to interact with the classic video game DOOM. The strange experiment marks a new step toward ...

A newly discovered mechanism that protects nerve cells could have important implications for understanding and treating mental illness.

Researchers found a rare, strictly binary brain feature in mice that is permanently active in females but completely dormant ...