A new bioluminescent tool allows neurons to glow on their own, letting scientists track brain activity without harmful lasers or fading signals. The advance makes it possible to watch individual brain ...

Japanese researchers trained cultured rat cortical neurons to autonomously generate complex temporal signals using a ...

Cortical Labs connected roughly 800,000 lab-grown human neurons to a high-density electrode array and let them interact with ...

Sure, playing video game is fun. But the ability of tiny brain organoids to pick up a skill could provide insight into how ...

The brain is the most complex organ in the human body. Different parts of the brain perform a variety of functions, all of ...

The human brain holds a staggering number of connections, yet scientists have long struggled to explain how it stores so much ...

Neuroscientists and psychologists have been trying to understand how the human brain supports learning and the encoding of ...

How does brain metabolism affect aging? Researchers received a $3.3M NIH grant to study neurometabolic coupling and Alzheimer ...

Most people wouldn’t give Geobacter sulfurreducens a second look. The bacteria was first discovered in a ditch in rural Oklahoma. But the lowly microbe has a superpower. It grows protein nanotubes ...

The diabetes drug you've heard of for 60 years just revealed a secret — it's been working on your brain all along.

A new paper published in Cell Reports, in which researchers work with primates, sheds some light on the question. Researchers ...