Rehabilitation helps restore some function, but in many cases stroke survivors live with permanent motor and cognitive impairments, as well as an increased risk of depression, dementia and other ...

Every year, millions of lives are suddenly, swiftly transformed by a stroke, which occurs when a blood vessel traveling ...

Leading scientists and bioethicists are urging the creation of an international oversight body to monitor advances in human ...

Slicing up and analyzing real, living, three-dimensional brain tissue comes with some obvious complications – as in, it tends ...

Neural tissue engineering aims to mimic the brain's complex environment, the extracellular matrix, which supports nerve cell growth, development, and proper connectivity. This environment is carefully ...

Bioengineers at the University of California, Riverside have created BIPORES, the first entirely synthetic model of human brain tissue. This breakthrough could revolutionize neural research and drug ...

Despite widespread skepticism, the National Science Foundation and DARPA have invested millions of dollars in organoid-based ...

A treatment that could protect premature babies from brain damage showed promise in a recent study in Sweden. Using a ...

A group of Chinese researchers has created a robot with a brain made of human stem cells. The technology is technically a "brain-on-a-chip," and the researchers have been working to train the robot to ...

Researchers have created functional brain-like tissue without relying on any animal-derived materials, marking a major step toward more ethical and reproducible neurological research.

Biomedical researchers at Texas A&M University may have discovered a way to stop or even reverse the decline of cellular ...