New research has identified that neuroinflammation driven by microglia (immune cells in the brain) is a primary underlying ...

The world’s most powerful supercomputers can now run simulations of billions of neurons, and researchers hope such models ...

New research has shown how brain cells acquire a cancerous mutation and spread across the cortex, opening a new path for ...

A large genetic screen has revealed how stem cells transform into brain cells, exposing hundreds of genes that make this ...

Your ability to notice what matters visually comes from an ancient brain system over 500 million years old.

IDH-mutant glioma, caused by abnormalities in a specific gene (IDH), is the most common malignant brain tumor among young ...

IDH-mutant glioma, caused by abnormalities in a specific gene (IDH), is the most common malignant brain tumor among young adults under the age of 50.

The human brain is often compared to a computer, but the latest wave of research shows it is closer to a self-building city, ...

Researchers in Japan built a miniature human brain circuit using fused stem-cell–derived organoids, allowing them to watch ...

BEIJING -- Chinese researchers have developed an in vivo embryonic mouse intrauterine imaging technique, which has elucidated the dynamic process of brain development in embryonic mice in vivo, the ...

A new computational model of the brain based closely on its biology and physiology not only learned a simple visual category learning task exactly as well as lab animals, but even enabled the ...