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

With a wider range of human samples — especially from younger people — it's possible that these cells could still be discovered, Fischer-Sternjak said. Going forward, the researchers hope to ...

Humans have an estimated hundred billion neurons, or brain cells, each with about a thousand connections to other cells. One of the great challenges of modern neuroscience is to map out all the ...

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 ...

In a potentially major breakthrough for regenerative medicine, scientists at MIT have developed a way to convert skin cells ...

Dr Hameroff believes that consciousness happens at a deeper quantum level, arguing it comes from quantum processes inside microtubules (tiny structures in brain cells) rather than just from large ...

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 ...

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