Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Neurons have hundreds of treelike branches that receive signals from neighboring cells. One of the central mysteries of the brain ...

Following a brain injury, specialized progenitor cells produce a stress-related neuropeptide that prevents neighboring cells ...

A growing body of research is challenging the long-held assumption that memory and awareness belong exclusively to the brain. Scientists working across immunology, biophysics, and neuroscience have ...

The human body is an extraordinary feat of biological engineering. Every heartbeat, every breath, every thought, and every movement depends on an immense network of microscopic cells working together ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The brain is two separate organs that work together, rather than a single unified unit, scientists at Stanford University have ...

As the human brain takes shape before birth, a remarkable type of stem cell helps give it many of the features that make it distinctly human. These cells, called radial glia, make billions of ...

Scientists have identified two specific types of brain cells that behave differently in people with depression, offering a clearer picture of what is happening inside the brain. By analyzing donated ...

Researchers have discovered that a microscopic skeleton inside neurons does much more than hold cells together. It acts as a gatekeeper that controls what brain cells absorb and when they absorb it.

What if the very structures we thought were destroying the brain are actually trying to save it? A new study reveals that protein clumps, long considered toxic markers of diseases like Huntington's, ...

A recent study suggests that the human brain emerges from two separate organs, a discovery that may impact future treatments ...

Australian researchers have trained lab-grown brain cells on a silicon computer chip to play the nineties shooter game "Doom" and say they are just scratching the surface of what the neurons could be ...