Neural tissue engineering aims to mimic the brain's complex environment, the extracellular matrix, which supports nerve cell ...

In a town on the shores of Lake Geneva sit clumps of living human brain cells for hire. These blobs, about the size of a ...

Scientists discovered that lowering a specific molecule helps microglia switch into a protective state that quiets brain ...

Robots that can sense and respond to the world like humans may soon be a reality as scientists have created an artificial ...

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

While computing with minimal energy consumption is an alluring beginning, humanity has to revisit a fundamental ...

In Alzheimer’s disease, which is the most common cause of dementia, microglia (the immune cells of the brain) can behave in very different ways. At times, they help protect the brain, and at other ...

Researchers are cultivating human brain cells in laboratories to transform them into biological circuits for creating ...

In A Nutshell • A pig kidney with just one genetic modification functioned in a human for 61 days before being removed as ...

Researchers have uncovered surprising evidence that anxiety may be controlled not by neurons but by two dueling groups of ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Scientists have reached a milestone in an ambitious initiative to chart how the many types of brain ...

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