Researchers are no longer just simulating brains in silicon, they are wiring living human neurons into machines and asking them to compute. Tiny clusters of brain cells, grown from stem cells and ...

Scientists have created a super-map of the brain containing 30 million cells to trace the prenatal origins of diseases.

Research into mice from UT Southwestern and other institutions shows brain cells help the body run farther and faster.

The origins of Alzheimer's remain contentious, but a new study suggests the disease may emerge as two key proteins compete ...

Scientists in Canada have uncovered a surprising weakness in glioblastoma, one of the deadliest brain cancers. They found ...

Exercise does more than strengthen muscles; it also rewires the brain. In a study publishing February 12 in the Cell Press journal Neuron, researchers reveal that the lasting gain in endurance from ...

How does brain metabolism affect aging? Researchers received a $3.3M NIH grant to study neurometabolic coupling and Alzheimer ...

Leuven, 10 March 2026 - A new study led by researchers from VIB and KU Leuven shows that immune cells called microglia can actively promote the formation of plaques in Alzheimer’s disease, challenging ...

In A Nutshell Scientists reprogrammed skin cells from children with Sanfilippo syndrome into lab-grown brain cells and found ...