Sure, playing video game is fun. But the ability of tiny brain organoids to pick up a skill could provide insight into how ...

We’re a long way from reviving a frozen human, but new research yields insight.

Scientists have uncovered a surprisingly large reserve of “silent synapses” in the adult brain—unused neural connections that can be rapidly activated to store new memories.

In a bid to better understand, and potentially treat, a host of conditions that affect early cognition, neurodevelopment and ...

Real-life researchers taught a dish of roughly 200,000 living human brain cells to play the classic 1990s computer game “Doom ...

Johns Hopkins and other BRAIN Initiative Cell Atlas Network (BICAN) researchers have enhanced a cellular road map of how the ...

The choice of rodent strain for neuroscientific research is often considered a secondary factor when selecting rat or mouse models for functional studies of ...

The brain may lose control over which genes get expressed as it ages.

Researchers showed that "exosomes" from pig semen may be used in a potential new treatment for retinoblastoma.