Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have developed a method that shows how the nervous system and sensory organs are formed ...

A popular hypothesis for how the brain clears molecular waste, which may help explain why sleep feels refreshing, is a ...

Neurons are the cells in the brain responsible for sending messages to the rest of the body, and scientists have long thought that they are settled into one subtype once they develop from stem ...

Researchers have developed a method that shows how the nervous system and sensory organs are formed in an embryo. By labeling stem cells with a genetic 'barcode', they have been able to follow the ...

Although neural cell competition is widely recognized for its role during early brain development, Prof. Wu's team demonstrated that this process continues to be vital throughout life. They ...

Cells don’t just follow a rigid script when responding to stress – they’re far more adaptable than we thought. A new study ...

Brain inflammation, while a crucial part of the ... The study focuses on how immune cells react to amyloid-beta (Aβ) plaques, a hallmark of Alzheimer's, and how this immune response differs ...

Researchers from The University of Texas at Arlington and the University of California–San Francisco have used a new brain-mapping technique to identify memory-related brain cells vulnerable to ...