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

The past twenty years have seen gluten sensitivity transformed from a fringe concern into a mainstream cultural identity, ...

What if the brain prepares your actions before you ever “decide”—and what does that really mean for free will?

The race to understand the brain has just crossed a threshold that once belonged to science fiction. Using one of the world’s ...

The human body contains numerous enigmatic elements that scientists have not been able to explain through simple explanations. The most confusing patterns exist in plain sight, although scientists ...

The ability of these devices to access aspects of a person’s innermost life, including preconscious thought, raises the ...

For more than a century, medical students have memorized the same map of the human body, confident that every major structure ...

From interactive diagrams to A.I. assistants, virtual tools are beginning to supplant physical dissections in some classrooms ...

Like fingerprints, human brains are unique. Scientists are working to map the variability of individual brains and to inform personalized therapeutics for treatment-resistant disease. These findings ...

Even newer “minimally invasive” ideas, like stent-mounted electrodes deployed through blood vessels, still require a catheter ...

Scientists have spent decades trying to understand whether the layered sheet of tissue that covers your brain follows one ...

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