Scientists create living robots with nervous systems, revealing how neurons grow, connect and shape movement in a new biological model.

The clues were always there. Searing pain is often the first hint of pancreatic cancer. Mood and depression swings often accompany a cancer diagnosis ‒ and not just because patients are facing their ...

Two Northeastern University researchers want to make life better for people who've experienced serious physical trauma, the ...

Scientists have built tiny living robots from frog embryo cells that spontaneously grow their own functional nervous systems, ...

Researchers propose that placozoans, one of the simplest kinds of animals, may contain the blueprint for the neurons of more complex creatures. By Sam Jones For hundreds of millions of years, ...

A discovery that may improve treatment options for patients with neurodegenerative diseases has been made by scientists at King’s College London and the University of Bath in the UK. This finding ...

Can we regrow damaged nerves? A new study identifies the AHR protein as the switch that limits axon regeneration.

Biobots, whose growing line of variants started with xenobots, are fascinating tiny self-powered living robots built exclusively using frog embryonic cells. Originally developed in the laboratories of ...

Paul Han, a Johns Hopkins University junior from Riverside, Calif., has conducted original research that adds to scientists’ understanding of the special circumstances under which nerve cells in the ...

It is 7 am, the alarm clock rings—you open your eyes, swing your legs out of bed, give a talk at work, play a tennis match in the evening. Billions of nerve cells that make up the gray matter in our ...

A discovery that may improve treatment options for patients with neurodegenerative diseases. A discovery that may improve treatment options for patients with neurodegenerative diseases has been made ...