The human brain is comprised of two main types of cells, known as neurons and glia. The first are responsible for ...

First devised by Zoltan Takats, a chemist and professor at Imperial College London, the technology consists of a needle-like ...

The human brain is known to store various memories for long periods of time, progressively learning from new experiences and ...

Scientists have long known that the brain's visual system isn't fully hardwired from the start-it becomes refined by what ...

Most textbooks credit nearby epithelial cells with the heavy lifting of organ building, because epithelial sheets act like ...

The herb rosemary has been linked with memory—now researchers turned the compound against Alzheimer’s disease and cognitive ...

Australian start-up Cortical Labs and UK’s bit.bio have built CL1 with the aim of creating ‘synthetic biological intelligence’ ...

Scientists have long known that the brain's visual system isn't fully hardwired from the start—it becomes refined by what babies see—but the authors ...

A study reveals that our moments of mental wandering could prepare the brain to learn more effectively. Far from being wasted time, this passive exploration would build internal models of the world.

Scientists used 3D mini-brains grown from stem cells to study Huntington’s disease. They found early developmental changes ...

By turning standard images into precise 3D measurements, the FiLM-Scope could expand what’s possible in both manual and robotic microsurgery. Its flexible, data-rich imaging could also be valuable in ...