As the human brain takes shape before birth, a remarkable type of stem cell helps give it many of the features that make it ...

A new computational model of the brain based closely on its biology and physiology has not only learned a simple visual category learning task exactly as well as lab animals, but even enabled the ...

Immune cells can become exhausted after prolonged exposure to cancer, gradually losing their ability to attack tumor cells.

Brain-resident immune cells that have reached an old-age state called "senescence" secrete a protein that causes dysfunction in other brain cells, according to a study led by investigators at Weill ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Scientists showed that it’s possible to reproduce an entire cerebral cortex inside one of the world’s fastest computers. The model represents the ...

The blood-brain barrier protects the central nervous system by tightly regulating what crosses between the two compartments. Neurons are vulnerable if the barrier suffers damage or weakens with age, ...

Neuroscientists have kept human brain organoids alive for >5 years, enabling them to study neural development over extended ...

Brain chemistry may contribute to memory beyond ordinary electrical signalling AI systems process information without the living cellular environment found inside brains Astrocytes could play an ...