Before birth, an average of 25.9 percent of neurons in the human cerebral cortex carry large duplications or deletions of DNA ...

A new study with data from mice and human tissues suggests that, in ulcerative colitis, immune cells in the gut might make ...

Faulty neurons can contribute to various neurological conditions, but researchers have uncovered a system that might clean ...

Scientists have debated for decades whether the human brain sprouts new neurons throughout life. What would it mean if it ...

During fetal development, the human brain generates an excess of neurons, most of which are eliminated shortly before and after birth. New research from Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's ...

Credit: Allen Institute Scientists exploring the brain’s “blue place” discovered the longest neuron ever measured in a mouse and uncovered new clues about how the brain learns. When mice in a decision ...

The data showed 26 percent of neurons in the prenatal cortex had copy number variants, but this decreased to about 6 percent ...

The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel ...

Recordings from 112 epilepsy patients link specific amygdala neurons to later image recognition, suggesting a broader role for this brain region in memory.

The Biological Computing Co. (TBC), an applied biological computing company that uses living neurons to improve AI models, today launched TBC mischief 1, an AI video model that generates video 5x ...

The San Diego biotechnology startup is one of several firms working on a cutting-edge technique with the potential to slow or ...