When probes are inserted into the brain for research or clinical purposes, the electrical activity of neurons is recorded. These signals can be used to understand how the brain performs certain ...

For decades, depression has been explained to patients as a “chemical imbalance” in the brain, a vague phrase that never specified which chemicals, in which cells, were going wrong. A study published ...

Adult neurogenesis is how the adult brain produces new neurons. The newborn cells divide, migrate to specific brain regions ...

Functioning brain cells need a functioning system for picking up the trash and sorting the recycling. But when lysosomes, the cellular sanitation machines responsible for those tasks, break down or ...

Over a decade ago, scientists redefined how to study organ development by generating seemingly unremarkable clumps of cells. They dubbed them organoids: organ-like microstructures produced using stem ...

Aging is the price paid for the ability of experiencing existence, one might philosophize. Natural cellular aging begins with differentiation. Once a stem cell becomes a specific cell type, it's ...

Neuroscientists have made a major advance in modeling the human brain in mice, offering a new way to study conditions like ...

A literature review links age-related DNA leakage and persistent cGAS–STING signaling to chronic brain inflammation across ...

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Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have discovered a new strategy that glioblastoma, the most common and aggressive form of adult brain cancer, uses to fuel its own growth.