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

For decades, biologists treated a familiar marine invertebrate as a kind of living afterthought, a translucent tube that ...

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

By implementing an automated 3D cell segmentation process, researchers mapped neurons and muscle fibers at the single-cell ...

Sometimes our immune system runs amok and attacks the organ that makes us “us” — the brain. It's called autoimmune ...

Ischemic stroke is a complex cerebrovascular disorder characterized by highly unpredictable outcomes influenced by ...

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

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 ...

A team of researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has been refining and combining several advanced ...

Most animals follow a predictable biological script. They grow, reproduce, wear out, and then die. But a few species have missed that memo entirely. They regenerate lost body parts, halt aging, ...

Scientists leveraged plants’ built-in regeneration capacity to grow modified plants in weeks instead of months, offering a novel tool in plant biotechnology.

Tooth loss and bone degeneration are problems that modern medicine still struggles to fix. Data from the National Bone Health Policy Institute shows that 10 million Americans over the age of 50 have ...