Pea-size clusters of human cells called brain organoids inspire both hope and fear. Experts are debating how scientists can ...

Increasing the levels of a particular phospholipid in the membranes of brain cells may offer a promising new way to improve blood circulation in the brain and support healthier brain activity. A poten ...

An international research team identified hundreds of genes essential for the development of brain cells, including one gene ...

Neuroscientists have long listened to the brain’s electrical spikes, but those loud crackles are only the final output of a ...

“This is a paradigm shift,” says Donn Van Deren, PhD, postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, who ...

Most of the time, you assume your brain is either “on” or “off,” awake or asleep. A new study shows something far more ...

Using advanced microscopes that capture brain cell anatomy and activity, a portion of a mouse's brain was mapped and rendered into a 3D atlas that creates new possibilities for neuroscience. When you ...

Elizabeth Jonas first got interested in mitochondria by chance. In 1995, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Yale, working at the Marine Biological Lab in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, where she was ...

Neuroscientists have unveiled an engineered protein that lets them watch incoming signals wash over neurons in real time, turning what used to be invisible chemical whispers into vivid, trackable ...