Now, Cortical Labs has successfully developed a brain-on-a-chip computer primarily designed to aid scientists and researchers ...

Sponsor Message When the blast wave is from a big explosion ... especially vulnerable structure is the blood brain barrier, a protective layer of cells lining the inner surface of blood vessels.

New studies show that astrocytes, long thought to be support cells in the brain, are crucial intermediaries for relaying messages to neurons.

Gene delivery systems can target specific brain cells, a breakthrough that could lead to treatments for Parkinson's, ...

Hundreds of neuroscientists across the world recently characterized more than 3,000 human brain cell types as part of the National Institute of Health’s BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Network ...

While most of the brain’s neurons are thought to be created before birth, an explosion in neural connections ... During neurogenesis, stem cells become non-specialized neural progenitor cells ...

A new type of brain cell, called a glutamatergic astrocyte, has been discovered. It could explain how a variety of neurodegenerative conditions, such as Parkinson’s, develop. Brain cells can ...

They're still far from a GPS guide to what's inside our skulls. However, the new brain cell atlas offers more guidance for researchers desperate to find effective treatments for a wide range of ...

Researchers identified some 3,300 types of brain cells, an order of magnitude more than was previously known, and have only a dim notion of what most of them do. By Carl Zimmer An international ...