A new package of papers examines the largest map yet of mammalian brain tissue. The map shows one cubic millimeter worth of neurons in the visual cortex of a mouse.

A fertilized egg somehow manages to build skin, brain, and blood cells within days. But how? New tech called LoxCode is ...

The brain alone has more than 100 billion neurons to send and receive these signals, or messages. Your spinal cord is a column of tissue that runs from the lower part of your brain to your lower back.

Peelen and Downing review recent evidence for body-selective neural mechanisms in the visual cortex and discuss how body-selective brain regions might relate to action perception and the 'mirror ...

Another addition to the list of body parts that have been grown in the lab is blood vessels. In 2024, scientists created a " blood-vessel-on-a-chip " which mimicked the shape of blood vessels and ...

During a visit to his lab at Albert Einstein, Hébert described plans to manually assemble chunks of youthful brain tissue using stem cells. These parts, he says, would not be fully developed, but ...

Government Scientist Investigating Whether Aging Parts of Your Brain Can Be Replaced With Cloned Tissue "We're... a couple steps away from reversing brain aging." 9.7.24, 6:45 AM EDT / Noor Al-Sibai ...

Research on microplastics in the body is still new, and whether these microscopic bits of plastic can pass through the blood-brain barrier in humans is still a big question.