Pea-size clusters of human cells called brain organoids inspire both hope and fear. Experts are debating how scientists can ...
“This is a paradigm shift,” says Donn Van Deren, PhD, postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, who ...
UCI’s $12M CIRM award for hNSC-01 marks a pivotal shift to clinical-stage development. See how this state-funded "bridge" is ...
Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have created a method that makes it possible to transform the brain's support cells ...
MIT researchers are using living cells to target diseased brain areas and deliver tiny electronic devices that can modulate ...
Delivering a connection-building protein to star-shaped cells in the brain could reverse changes to neural circuits seen in ...
A vanishingly rare genetic glitch in a single enzyme can erase a newborn’s brain cells in a matter of weeks, leaving doctors ...
Long before memory problems appear, your brain may already be losing neurons. That is the unsettling message from new work by ...
About ten years ago, scientists began exploring an unconventional idea for studying the brain: using bioluminescent light to ...
Gliomas are cancers that originate directly in the brain, instead of spreading to the brain from other parts of the body.
Detailed mapping of 1.2 million brain cells has revealed that not all cell types age in the same way and that some – found in a specific ‘hot spot’ – are more sensitive to the aging process. It opens ...