Miniature models of the brain have revealed a "previously unappreciated" role of microglia, a type of cell found within the ...

For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as "junk" and considered to serve no real purpose. In a new study ...

New research links an ancient DNA sequence to neuron growth, brain-cell balance, and a cognitive flexibility trait that may ...

Recent groundbreaking research has provided unprecedented insights into the earliest stages of human brain ...

Over the past decades, engineers have introduced a wide range of computing systems inspired by the human brain or designed to ...

New research reveals that lithium helps protect against neurodegeneration and Alzheimer's disease by preventing toxic amyloid ...

A growing body of research suggests that the brain clears waste during sleep via the glymphatic system. How does this work ...

Analogous to how all of the words in a language can be created by recombining the letters of its alphabet, a new study finds that the full repertoire of human hand actions can be built out of a small ...

However, because the human brain has about 20,000 clock neurons, understanding how they function has been a complex challenge. “To tackle this complexity, we turn to model organisms like fruit flies,” ...