A startup is experimenting with data centers powered by lab-grown human neurons, testing whether living cells can offer a ...

Research reveals why Alzheimer’s brain damage doesn’t always lead to dementia, highlighting the role of protective brain ...

In mouse brain cells, and in follow-up work involving worms and human cortical neurons, the team found that many axons ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising overlap between cancer genetics and Alzheimer’s disease, involving mutations in the ...

Scientists have identified two specific types of brain cells that behave differently in people with depression, offering a ...

For decades, depression has been explained to patients as a “chemical imbalance” in the brain, a vague phrase that never ...

Researchers at the Advanced Science Research Center at the CUNY Graduate Center (CUNY ASRC) have uncovered a surprising link ...

Webs of star-shaped cells called astrocytes connect distant parts of the brain, allowing long-distance exchange of molecules.

I n February Cortical Labs, an Australian startup, announced that a programmer had taught one of its “biological ...

Ordinary human cells, not just neurons, respond more strongly to memory signals when they arrive in spaced bursts rather than ...

A team of researchers discover how the stentor, an organism made of a single, gigantic cell, learns without a brain.

A new Nature Genetics study has identified excitatory neurons and microglia in the prefrontal cortex as key brain cell types linked to genetic risk for major depression. Researchers mapped chromatin ...