The new generation of Alzheimer's disease drugs—the first proven to change the course of the disease—typically extend ...

When specialized cells called tanycytes stop working, disease-causing tau proteins build up in the brain. A group of specialized cells play a crucial part in clearing toxic proteins from inside the ...

A pair of new studies have provided fresh evidence in the long-running scientific debate—and the result could be game-changing for treating diseases like Alzheimer’s and dementia.

A biocomputer powered by lab-grown human brain cells has leveled up from Pong to Doom. While nowhere ready to handle the video game shooter’s most challenging levels, researchers at Cortical Labs in ...

How does a single cell reliably build one of the most complex structures known in nature? New research suggests the answer ...

The brain relies on real-time delivery of oxygen and nutrients through its microvasculature, which threads through neural ...

Accumulation of the protein tau in the brain is one of the hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease. In a paper published in Cell ...

Living human neurons were trained to play Doom, extending the long-running engineering benchmark into biological computing.

Researchers reveal that lack of sleep damages the myelin sheath in the brain and slows the rate of neural signal transmission ...

"If the neurons fire in a specific pattern, the Doom guy shoots." The post Researchers Get Human Brain Cells Running Doom ...

A cluster of lab-grown human brain cells has apparently made the leap to successfully playing a very rudimentary video game ...

Not only do our brains appear to generate new neurons into adulthood, but those of superagers contain far more brain cells in development than those of healthy peers, new research has found. According ...