Ordinary human cells, not just neurons, respond more strongly to memory signals when they arrive in spaced bursts rather than ...

A new vitamin K-based treatment could help replenish lost neurons in Alzheimer's patients, offering hope for slowing ...

Researchers have developed brain-on-a-chip technology that uses human tissue to model how the brain’s protective barrier ...

Detailed mapping of 1.2 million brain cells has revealed that not all cell types age in the same way and that some – found in a specific ‘hot spot’ – are more sensitive to the aging process. It opens ...

The team’s advance changes this. “Ours register only 0.1 volts, which about the same as the neurons in our bodies,” says Yao. With this low-voltage design, the artificial neurons could integrate not ...

We tend to think of memory as exclusively the brain’s domain, but new research suggests that this view may be far too narrow.

In lieu of animal experiments, researchers from the University of Rochester are using state-of-the-art microchips with human ...

In a key advance for regenerative medicine and gut health, scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have uncovered a precise and ...

An international study changes the view that exposure to the toxic metal lead is largely a post-industrial phenomenon. The ...

The effects of insufficient water are felt by every cell in the body, but it’s the brain that manifests our experience of ...