A Startup Is Keeping Human Brain Cells Active After Death. Could It Change Drug Testing?

What previously required months or years of specialised lab work can now be done in hours or days thanks to its integrated ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising principle behind the brain's intricate development from a single cell. Researchers ...

How does a single cell build a brain with billions of precisely organized neurons? Researchers suggest that brain cells use ...

In mice, a brain protein called Arc helps spread toxic molecules from sick brain cells to healthy ones. If therapies could be ...

Cell death in dementia has long posed a frustrating problem. Toxic proteins pile up inside neurons in Alzheimer’s disease and ...

Alzheimer's disease is driven by a buildup of a toxic protein called Tau that kills neurons. As toxic Tau spreads to new ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have used a "zap-and-freeze" technology to watch hard-to-see brain cell communications in living brain tissue from mice and humans. Findings from the new ...

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 ...

Scientists have discovered a tiny group of neurons in an ancient brain region that acts like a built-in focus filter, helping ...

We’re just beginning to decode this faint optical “signature of life” and what it could reveal about health, disease, and the ...

The genetic material within the cells of the human body is not uniform. Instead, genetic mutations accumulate during homeostasis and cell division and are faithfully propagated to daughter cells.