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

Although neurons are considered the basic units of the brain and nervous system, they do not do all the work. Glia are a non-neuronal category of cells that do not transmit electrical signals but ...

Neurons are the cells in the brain responsible for sending messages to the rest of the body, and scientists have long thought ...

Although neural cell competition is widely recognized for its role during early brain development, Prof. Wu's team demonstrated that this process continues to be vital throughout life. They ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

the team noticed that the brain’s immune cells (known as microglia) clear plaques, and subsequently get to work restoring a healthy environment in which the brain can heal. A spatial ...

"Overall, this study helps us understand why certain brain regions are more affected by tau buildup leading to Alzheimer's disease," Dr. Maia said. "By identifying the cell types and gene ...