Lab-grown “reductionist replicas” of the human brain are helping scientists understand fetal development and cognitive ...

A collection of studies that chart how mammalian brain cells grow and differentiate is a ‘very valuable’ tool for ...

Every cell in the body has the same DNA, but different cell types—such as muscle or brain cells—use different parts of it.

Researchers have discovered how newly created neurons depend on blood flow in the adult brain to travel from their site of ...

This fiery mixture of red and green neurons in the brain of a mouse shows how interconnected different types of neurons in the brain can be. This fiery mixture of red and green neurons in the brain of ...

Life depends on motion. To eat, go home, or explore, we must know where we are, where we want to go and how to get there. We ...

In the lab, Johns Hopkins University neuroscientist Minhyeok Chang and colleagues identified tiny tubular bridges in the branching tips of cultured neurons. In further tests on mouse models of ...

The enteric nervous system (ENS) is a vast network of nerves built into the walls of the intestine. While it is well known ...

For numerous individuals with schizophrenia, living with the condition involves challenges, not only related to hallucinations or delusions, but also due to subtler difficulties, such as problems ...