Researchers have created a protein that can detect the faint chemical signals neurons receive from other brain cells. By ...

Scientists mapping the human body at the cellular level keep running into the same surprise: beneath the apparent chaos of ...

About ten years ago, scientists began exploring an unconventional idea for studying the brain: using bioluminescent light to ...

A new bioluminescent tool allows neurons to glow on their own, letting scientists track brain activity without harmful lasers or fading signals. The advance makes it possible to watch individual brain ...

MIT researchers are using living cells to target diseased brain areas and deliver tiny electronic devices that can modulate ...

New research suggests that balance and coordination problems in multiple sclerosis may begin when key brain cells slowly run ...

The brain’s rules seem simple: Fire together, wire together. When groups of neurons activate, they become interconnected. This networking is how we learn, reason, form memories, and adapt to our world ...

Most of the time, you assume your brain is either “on” or “off,” awake or asleep. A new study shows something far more ...

The human brain contains nearly 86 billion neurons, constantly exchanging messages like an immense social media network, but neurons do not work alone – glial cells, neurotransmitters, receptors, and ...

We can replace joints, lenses, even organs—but not the brain. As neuroscience unravels the mechanisms of neurodegeneration, ...

In jellyfish and sea anemones, neurons accumulate DNA damage while animals are awake and repair that damage during sleep.

Pain sensing neurons in the gut kindle inflammatory immune responses that cause allergies and asthma, according to a new ...