In mouse brains, star-shaped astrocytes form flexible networks that may offer another way for brain regions to communicate.

Researchers using the International Space Station mapped thousands of proteins in human brain organoids, revealing that ...

This may sound crazy, but scientists use blood to build soft neural interfaces in the brain, and then control them with light ...

German scientists have successfully cryopreserved adult mouse hippocampal tissue, cooling it to -196°C and later rewarming it ...

Using various imaging techniques, the scientists tied abdominal movements to shifts in mouse brains and the movement of ...

Researchers have sustained a three-dimensional network of neurons inside a flexible electronic chip for roughly six months, marking the longest and most detailed recording of its kind. The Nature ...

Human babies arrive with 100 extra bones for the same reason birth is the most dangerous event in mammalian life. Both facts ...

Psychedelics work on the brain by increasing the functional connection between the thinking and sensory regions, temporarily blurring the line between perception and thought, an international ...

A cluster of rat neurons, grown on a chip in a Japanese laboratory, just learned to generate a sine wave on command. Across ...

For years, the idea of building a working replica of the human brain has lived comfortably in the realm of science fiction. A ...

Scientists mapped human brain development in Down syndrome at a cellular level, discovering that stem cells "rush" to become ...