Nevertheless, the researchers hope that, with further refinements, the model could be used to study different human brain diseases using stem cells collected directly from patients. If they manage ...

What happens in the brain as we age? Might it be at all possible to rejuvenate nerve cells? Seeking answers to these ...

The Noonan lab at Yale University is focused on understanding how HARs contribute to the evolution of uniquely human brain features.

Scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and ShanghaiTech University have developed an innovative method for growing brain tumors of individual patients in the laboratory that mimic ...

Imagine watching a speaker and another person nearby is loudly crunching from a bag of chips. To deal with this, a person could adjust their attention to downplay those crunch noises or focus their ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A brain network model has been developed to predict when individuals will feel surprised, based on neuroimaging data. This model, which tracks fluctuations in ...

What makes the human brain unique? A Yale study unlocks new insights into genetic changes that shaped our evolution.

Scientists have developed an innovative method for growing brain tumors of individual patients in the laboratory that mimic the original structure and the molecular property of the parental tumor as ...

In a human cell-based brain model, repetitive physical injuries reactivate the common virus, Herpes Simplex Virus 1 (HSV-1), ...

A University of Ottawa neuroscientist led a Canadian team uncovering key insights into neural stem cell activation ... cellular relationship in the human brain. “Until now it was thought ...

However, the human brain stem is fairly similar to that of mice, so it's likely that the same control mechanism occurs in our brains too, the study authors said. Different cell types in the brain ...

A team of scientists—including Agnieszka Ciesielska (left), Barbara Klein (center), and Jeanne Paz (right)—showed that modified stem cells can improve brain ... the modified human stem cells ...