Our brains age along with the rest of our bodies, and as they do, they produce fewer new brain cells. Now, researchers have found a key mechanism through which the typical age-related decline in ...

A new study, recently published in the journal Nature Communications, is leading to a new understanding of how immune cells ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Groundbreaking research from Karolinska Institutet reveals that humans can grow new neurons well into old age, offering new hope ...

A team of researchers at RPI, in collaboration with the University of South Florida, University of North Carolina, and The ...

Scientists at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, (NUS Medicine), have identified a molecular switch that helps aging brains ...

Neural crest cells are a population of stem cells that invade the embryo in early development. They play a big role in what ...

For the first time, clumps of human cells called organoids were fully integrated with the brains of rats—and influenced their ...

Research teams have created a versatile set of gene delivery systems that can reach different neural cell types in the human brain and spinal cord with exceptional accuracy. These delivery systems are ...

Stressed brain cells can survive longer by slowing sugar use, revealing a short-term protective response that later turns ...

Machine learning is helping neuroscientists organize vast quantities of cells’ genetic data in the latest neurobiological cartography effort.