Scientists found a hidden 'gatekeeper' in brain cells that may explain—and help stop—Alzheimer's damage.

Exposure to elevated levels of sodium fluoride might impair cognitive abilities by altering how brain cells grow and ...

A cutting-edge immunotherapy could help kids fight — and even banish — brain tumors, the leading cause of cancer-related ...

Researchers at Trinity College Dublin have discovered that microglia—the main immune cells of the brain—play a critical role ...

Researchers have identified a previously overlooked mechanism of brain cell death that appears to play a major role in ...

Researchers have identified a new cell death process called 'karyoptosis'. This process involves harmful proteins building up ...

Scientists have mapped the brains of several animal species in remarkable detail, but the human brain remains comparatively ...

Parkinson’s disease affects more males than females and they tend to have a higher risk. A new study in brain cells sheds ...

What makes the human brain capable of language, imagination, mathematics and invention? For many years, the prevailing view ...

Glioblastoma is an aggressive brain cancer with low survival rates due to the blood brain barrier blocking many chemotherapy drugs.