UCLA researchers have discovered two powerful influences that help guide how the human brain forms before birth. Radial glia, ...

As the human brain takes shape before birth, a remarkable type of stem cell helps give it many of the features that make it ...

Neuroscientists have kept human brain organoids alive for >5 years, enabling them to study neural development over extended ...

Scientists discovered that human microglia, immune cells that help shape developing brain circuits, can take four to eight years to mature instead of just weeks as they do in mice. The unusually slow ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Human cortical neurons may be more powerful computing units than rat neurons, offering clues to human cognition. (CREDIT: ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have used a "zap-and-freeze" technology to watch hard-to-see brain cell communications in living brain tissue from mice and humans. Findings from the new ...

A $46 million grant from a new autism research initiative, Aligning Research to Impact Autism (ARIA), is turbocharging ...

IT IS strange to think that we still don’t know what our brains are made of. Yet, despite decades of research and the development of high-tech scanning techniques, that is the truth. Sure, we know the ...

A human-specific gene influences brain immune cell development. These cells, called microglia, mature much slower than in ...

A surprising immune signal outside the brain may help drive damage—raising a key question about where Alzheimer’s really ...

Recent research in mice provides evidence that consuming the common artificial sweetener aspartame may worsen the brain ...

For years, one of the simplest explanations for human intelligence was also one of the biggest: the human brain has an enormous number of neurons. It also has an even more enormous web of connections ...