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 ...

For the first time, scientists have grown functional, brain-like tissue without using any animal-derived materials or added ...

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

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 ...

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

Bengaluru scientists have pinpointed how faulty lipid regulation in the brain causes neurological issues in Lowe Syndrome.

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 ...