Our brains contain billions of neurons and trillions of connections, and scientists are only beginning to understand the ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have developed a method that shows how the nervous system and sensory organs are formed ...

Learn about our Editorial Policies. The brain is a complicated network of connections and functions, but its inner machinations remain an enigma. In a huge collaborative effort, researchers profiled ...

The pursuit of a cure for Alzheimer's disease is becoming an increasingly competitive and contentious quest with recent years ...

Some of these differences appear on the level of the brain's microstructure, meaning its individual cells and components of those cells. For instance, a study published in May 2024 used different ...

Look around, and you'll see it everywhere: the way trees form branches, the way cities divide into neighborhoods, the way the brain organizes ... their idea on grid cells, which play a critical ...

Scientists at Auburn University have uncovered a fundamental principle of how brain cells stay connected, and their discovery could change how we understand Alzheimer's disease.

Generating a complete multimodal cell census and atlas of the mouse brain through collaborative data collection, tool development and analysis. This atlas combines single-cell transcriptomic ...

Researchers from The University of Texas at Arlington and the University of California–San Francisco have used a new brain-mapping technique to identify memory-related brain cells vulnerable to ...