Scientists develop groundbreaking dual-action drug RI-AG03 that targets toxic tau proteins in Alzheimer's disease, showing ...

A comprehensive atlas of the human hypothalamus, a brain region that regulates many bodily functions, including temperature, sleep and appetite, has been built using single-cell RNA sequencing and ...

Using a single-cell sequencing technique, it was possible to characterize the different cell types present in the brain ...

By reexamining 3D images used to map the connections between brain cells, researchers are uncovering new information about a small, elusive, and often overlooked cellular appendage.

A University of Ottawa neuroscientist has led a Canadian research team to reveal important new insights into the activation ...

Columbia scientists find and manage to activate and deactivate in mice the neurons responsible for making the decision to ...

Nectow and Chowdhury deployed new single-cell techniques that make it possible to peer into a region of the brain and discern different types of cells that until now have been difficult to ...

Rutgers researchers discovered that microglia from individuals with a high genetic risk for alcohol use disorder (AUD) are ...

Like the periodic table of elements, which has enabled generations of scientists to predict the existence of yet-undiscovered elements and the behavior of those already known, the brain-cell ...

Human brains today contain 50% more plastic than in 2016, a new study found. Brain of people diagnosed with dementia had the ...

Theoretically, a grandmother cell is a single neuron, hidden somewhere among the 86 billion in your brain, that codes for one of your grandmothers. You delete it and — poof — everything you know about ...