A Japanese research team has successfully reproduced the human neural circuit in vitro using multi-region miniature organs known as assembloids, which are derived from induced pluripotent stem (iPS) ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A real estate investment company called Legacy Power Capital plans to build a “neural nexus” mixed-use development on two city blocks in downtown Memphis. The announcement was made ...

Using lab-grown brain tissue, researchers uncovered complex patterns of neural signaling that differ subtly between healthy ...

Starting July 1, medical students who take the U.S. Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) Step 2 Clinical Knowledge (CK) test will just have to be a little bit smarter. That's because the USMLE ...

A UC San Diego lab recently announced a pair of scientific breakthroughs for Pitt-Hopkins and Rett syndromes that are slated ...

A new computational model of the brain based closely on its biology and physiology has not only learned a simple visual ...

Standards make everyday life run smoothly. You rarely notice them: the credit card that works in any corner of the world, the Wi-Fi signal that connects a remote village to the cloud, or the vaccine ...

Organoids are bits of neural tissue that model human brain development. Their use in science makes some uneasy, in part because the brain is so closely tied to our sense of self.

Pea-size clusters of human cells called brain organoids inspire both hope and fear. Experts are debating how scientists can ...