Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have built a cross-species atlas of gene regulatory networks governing ...

Neuroscientists have made a major advance in modeling the human brain in mice, offering a new way to study conditions like ...

Most people seem to have cells that crossed the placenta from their mother into their developing brain in utero, even if they ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Human cortical neurons may be more powerful computing units than rat neurons, offering clues to human cognition. (CREDIT: ...

UCLA researchers show for the first time that human brain assembloids can reproduce the hallmark electrical changes seen during general anesthesia.

Lab-grown organoids wire into mice missing a key part of their brain, offering a new way to test drugs for developmental conditions. Human brain tissue transplanted into mice that lack a key part of ...

When I looked across the cells in the screen, I found that the ones that had the algae gene and had gotten light were showing ...

A PLOS Biology Perspective argues that immune and vascular cells, especially microglia, must be core components of neural ...

Scientists have created an unusual experimental model in which lab-grown human brain tissue has been integrated into the ...

Unrelated virus. (Heather Davies/SPL/Getty Images) Some pieces of our DNA can copy themselves into new locations. Copies ...

Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have found a new clue that may ...