In a town on the shores of Lake Geneva sit clumps of living human brain cells for hire. These blobs, about the size of a ...

USC researchers built artificial neurons that replicate real brain processes using ion-based diffusive memristors. These ...

From Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s hand came branches and whorls, spines and webs. Now-famous drawings by the neuroanatomist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries showed, for the first time, the ...

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

Neurons—the nerve cells responsible for transmitting electrical and chemical signals throughout the body—are organized in tissue, tending to cluster together in groups according to how they function.

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

Scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School and their collaborators have created one of the most comprehensive single cell maps ...

Learning to code doesn’t require new brain systems—it builds on the ones we already use for logic and reasoning.

After years of debate, scientists provided new evidence for the lifelong birth of human brain cells, which may inform future therapies for neurological diseases. “This gives us an important piece of ...

While the exact causes of neurodegenerative brain diseases like Alzheimer's and dementia are still largely unknown, ...