In the present study, a large team of researchers, including The FlyWire Consortium, headed by scientists at Princeton University, used a combination of imaging and artificial intelligence (AI) tools ...

Research from a team of Harvard and Google scientists has revealed never-before-seen details of the human brain’s structure.

Beneath the human brain's bulging cerebral cortex, smaller structures toil in relative obscurity. Subcortical areas, also known as the 'deep brain,' play key roles in functions like attention, emotion ...

Analysis of human brain tissue revealed differences in how immune cells behave in brains ... Microglia are immune cells that help keep our brains healthy by clearing waste and preserving normal brain ...

A groundbreaking study has found that cells outside the brain may have memory functions, challenging the long-held belief that memory is exclusive ... the scientists replicated learning over time by ...

Specifically, we wanted to understand what happens in the brain while a person engages in ... What happens to our human ability to solve complex problems in the future if we teach ourselves ...

Researchers led by Osaka University in Japan have conducted the first human trial using induced ... Limbal stem cells normally perform repair functions by differentiating into corneal epithelium.

This valuable contribution combines high-resolution histology with magnetic resonance imaging in a novel way to study the organisation of the human amygdala. The main findings convincingly ...

It allows the brain to do something crucial: adapt to change. It ensures the brain operates efficiently, accomplishing tasks with minimal resources while staying resilient by maintaining function even ...

On the right is a diagram showing healthy astrocytes above and a diseased astrocyte in different degenerative diseases. (A.H. Fok and S. Chierzi), CC BY Emerging evidence indicates that astrocytes ...

it would be exceedingly strange if evolution hadn’t grasped upon this effect for important brain functions. Indeed, it seems that she has, in sundry ways. Walter Freeman, a legendary now ...

For the past decade, medical researchers have been growing living, miniature replicas of parts of the human brain from stem cells. Such brain “organoids,” as they’re called, have always ...