Scientists found that non-brain cells activated a "memory gene" similar to brain cells. A groundbreaking discovery made by researchers at New York University (NYU) implies that memory creation ...

For this week’s Slate Plus bonus episode, John and David talk with Dave Philipps of The New York Times about brain trauma as the cost of military service. Voted “Favorite Political Podcast ...

“We came up with the idea that ‘Marginal Gains ... White matter is the tissue that forms connections between brain cells and the rest of the nervous system, helping these regions communicate ...

It was the 1950s, and scientists knew of only a few other diseases that pinprick the brain in such a way ... noninfectious proteins that stack up just like the bad ones but perform necessary ...

Until now, memories have been explained by the activity of brain cells called neurons that respond ... "The c-Fos-expressing astrocytes are physically close with engram neurons," said co-first ...

“They interact with practically every cell in the brain, [and] a single astrocyte can contact up to 100,000 synapses ... to a host of LAAs that are in close proximity.” ...

The brain, traditionally considered an immune-privileged organ due to the blood-brain barrier (BBB), has its own sophisticated immune defense system. Microglia, the primary immune cells of the ...

Until now, memories have been explained by the activity of brain cells called neurons that respond ... "The c-Fos-expressing astrocytes are physically close with engram neurons," said co-first ...

There are still cases in which tumors grow back and need follow-up treatment. Why don’t we have an approved CAR-T therapy for solid tumors like brain cancer? There’s several reasons for this, for one, ...

A research team at Lund University in Sweden has discovered a certain type of cells – foam cells – in patients with the aggressive brain tumour glioblastoma. It has been shown how these cells ...

You probably learned about organelles, those little 'organs' inside cells that form compartments with individual functions. For example, mitochondria produce energy, lysosomes recycle waste and the ...