When electrical activity travels across the brain, it moves like ripples on a pond. The motion of these "brain waves," first ...

The findings illustrate how neuron cells can adapt their metabolism ... the research team used a microscopic roundworm called Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans)—a type of worm commonly used in ...

In the hippocampus, a critical brain region for learning and memory, new cells emerge in some people into late adulthood, ...

Novel allogeneic stem cells and differentiated iPSCs are providing more physiologically relevant disease models.

Gut support cells communicate with surprising precision – like brain neurons – using tiny extensions to send instructions to ...

To create START, the Callaway lab combined monosynaptic rabies tracing and single-nuclei RNA sequencing to identify transcriptomic cell types and define neuron populations.

More information: Leander Dony et al, Chronic exposure to glucocorticoids amplifies inhibitory neuron cell fate during human neurodevelopment in organoids, Science Advances (2025).

Scientists have developed a new kind of laser-based artificial neuron that mimics a biological nerve cell. This artificial ...