Imagine treating a brain disease with a jab in the arm instead of a hole in the skull. That’s the future a team at MIT is ...

Strange brown specks in two donated brains set a seasoned neuropathologist on an unexpected path. Elaine Bearer had examined ...

Scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School and their collaborators have created one of the most comprehensive single cell maps of the developing human brain. The atlas captures nearly every cell type, ...

Lab-grown “reductionist replicas” of the human brain are helping scientists understand fetal development and cognitive ...

Scientists developed a wireless brain implant smaller than a grain of sand that recorded neural activity in mice for 365 days ...

Both for research and medical purposes, researchers have spent decades pushing the limits of microscopy to produce ever deeper and sharper images of brain activity, not only in the cortex but also in ...

The accumulation of misfolded proteins in the brain is central to the progression of neurodegenerative diseases like Huntington's, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. But to the human eye, proteins that are ...

Nikon just announced the winners of the 2024 Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition, where scientific microscope images become art. This year’s top prize went to Bruno Cisterna, who (assisted ...

Scientists have uncovered possible genetic risk factors for cancers and psychiatric disorders in a pioneering project to map ...

Dopamine is often called the brain's "motivation molecule," but for me, it represents something deeper, a window into how ...