A Startup Is Keeping Human Brain Cells Active After Death. Could It Change Drug Testing?

What previously required months or years of specialised lab work can now be done in hours or days thanks to its integrated ...

How does a single cell build a brain with billions of precisely organized neurons? Researchers suggest that brain cells use ...

In mice, a brain protein called Arc helps spread toxic molecules from sick brain cells to healthy ones. If therapies could be ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have used a "zap-and-freeze" technology to watch hard-to-see brain cell communications in living brain tissue from mice and humans. Findings from the new ...

A common brain protein may be giving Alzheimer’s disease an unexpected way to spread, carrying toxic Tau proteins from ...

In a bid to better understand, and potentially treat, a host of conditions that affect early cognition, neurodevelopment, and the brain later in life, investigators at Johns Hopkins Medicine and ...

The brain is the most complicated organ in the human body. With billions of cells that create trillions of connections to allow an individual to move, think, and remember, many of its innerworkings ...

Researchers report encouraging early results from a first-in-human clinical trial led by Children's National using a new ...

We’re just beginning to decode this faint optical “signature of life” and what it could reveal about health, disease, and the ...