Researchers at Boston University have discovered a surprising mechanism in the brains of zebra ...

A zebra finch can fit in the palm of your hand, but its brain is doing something that looks almost unruly. Inside one part of ...

The next surprise was that human organoids just kept growing. Mouse organoids were done with making neurons within nine days.

Harmful sugar made by gut bacteria can trigger immune damage connected to two devastating brain diseases. This data points to ...

The average lifespan of a red blood cell is just under four months, while skin cells last about a month and those in the ...

A growing body of research suggests astrocytes, star-shaped brain cells once dismissed as support players, may lead the way ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The study is led by Professor Daniel Tornero (left) and researcher Alba Ortega , from the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences ...

Challenging a long-standing assumption regarding the adult brain, recent research has demonstrated that individuals can continue to develop new brain cells into old age. Researchers at Sweden’s ...

Engineers at Northwestern University have taken a striking leap toward merging machines with the human brain by printing ...

Biomedical researchers at Texas A&M University may have discovered a way to stop or even reverse the decline of cellular energy production—a finding that could have revolutionary effects across ...

A new 3D human brain tissue platform developed by MIT researchers is the first to integrate all major brain cell types, including neurons, glial cells and the vasculature into a single culture. Grown ...