With the aid of a 3D printer, researchers at Uppsala University have succeeded in creating a model that resembles human nerve tissue. The model, which can be cultured from the patient's own cells, ...

Learn how the X-ray ptychography imaging technique is pushing the boundaries of neuroscience by mapping the mouse brain ...

An international team of researchers led by the Francis Crick Institute, working with the Paul Scherrer Institute, has ...

The brain is probably the least explored organ, much of which is due to the difficulty of studying it in situ rather than in slices under a microscope. Even growing small organoids out of neurons ...

An international team of researchers led by the Francis Crick Institute, working with the Paul Scherrer Institute, have developed a new imaging ...

Harvard and Google Research have released a startlingly deep dive into the human brain, mapping thousands of cells and millions of synapses in a poppy seed-sized sample of brain tissue. The effort ...

To better model how neurons fire and interact with glia, some scientists place the cells into a brain or grow them in an organoid. Others have produced little spheres of human neural tissue by ...

Electrical deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a well-established method for treating disordered movement in Parkinson's disease. However, implanting electrodes in a person's brain is an invasive and ...

In an important step toward visual prostheses, biocompatible electrodes can convert infrared light into nerve impulses, as ...

Obesity is a global health problem that affects many people. In recent years, very promising anti-obesity drugs have been developed. Despite these successes, there are patients who do not respond to ...

A specific RNA molecule can halt and reverse the nerve cell damage of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a study in mice suggests, a discovery that may pave the way for effective future treatments for the ...