For decades, textbooks told students the human brain held roughly 100 billion neurons and that glial cells outnumbered them ...

The Allen Institute in Seattle says scientists have now learned enough about how the brain works to start fixing it when it ...

A contraceptive drug helps human nerve cells regenerate by unlocking their forgotten embryonic healing abilities.

Small plastic particles alter neuron growth, suggesting that particle size may be just as important as the amount of plastic ...

A new breakthrough technology, co-developed by UCL scientists, that simultaneously records and manipulates neuron activity ...

Australian researchers have trained lab-grown brain cells on a silicon computer chip to play the nineties shooter game "Doom" and say they are just scratching the surface of what the neurons could be ...

Researchers have identified brain cells that are dedicated to measuring disappointment when rewards fall short.

Northwestern University engineers printed artificial neurons that don’t just imitate the brain — they talk to it. In a new study, the Northwestern team developed flexible, low-cost devices that ...

A team at Indiana University School of Medicine’s Stark Neurosciences Research Center has published findings showing that ...

In a key advance for regenerative medicine and gut health, scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have uncovered a precise and ...

Engineered fluorescent nanobodies that work inside living cells can label multiple proteins in different colors at once, ...

Ferroptosis, a type of cell death, may help maintain neuron balance in the hippocampus, supporting memory, learning and brain ...