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

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A groundbreaking brain atlas maps nearly 680,000 cells to reveal how the human brain develops at the single-cell level. The discovery could transform Parkinson’s research by setting new standards for ...

Scientists discovered why some neurons resist tau toxicity, identifying CRL5SOCS4 as a crucial defense and linking ...

Mount Sinai and BPGbio scientists uncover novel molecular drivers from live brain samples that direct human brain structure ...

For decades, researchers have attempted to pinpoint the specific areas of the brain responsible for human intelligence. A new ...

A transparent chip no larger than a stick of gum is helping scientists at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, an R1 research institution, transform the way researchers study the human ...

Researchers have used a new human reference genome, which includes many duplicated and repeat sequences left out of the original human genome draft, to identify genes that make the human brain ...

What is it when intelligence ceases to be something that a person is born with and is something that a person plugs? The ...

Researchers found that a good night’s sleep may help the brain clear proteins tied to Alzheimer’s.

A new study from Karolinska Institutet shows that damage to small blood vessels in the hereditary disease CADASIL may disrupt ...