Gut support cells communicate with surprising precision – like brain neurons – using tiny extensions to send instructions to ...

In a key advance for regenerative medicine and gut health, scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School and Nanyang Technological ...

A new study reveals that neurons in the brain’s memory center, the hippocampus, continue to form well into late adulthood. A ...

Summary: Unlike most tissues, the retina doesn’t summon neutrophils—the body’s typical first responders—when injured. Instead ...

In a key advance for regenerative medicine and gut health, scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School and Nanyang Technological ...

The potential for these kinds of machines to reshape computer processing, increase energy efficiency, and revolutionize ...

Broken connections between brain cells play a critical role in multiple neurodegenerative conditions, including Parkinson's ...

rats and some nonhuman primates make new brain cells in the dentate gyrus, part of the hippocampus, throughout life. But getting quality brain tissue samples from adult humans is extremely challenging ...

A new federal initiative seeks to develop stem cell treatments and other technology to repair brain tissue damaged by stroke, ...

Researchers have discovered the brain uses fat the same way muscles do — as an alternative fuel to glucose — going against ...

Memory might not be brain-exclusive. Researchers discovered that even kidney and nerve tissue cells can detect learning patterns and activate a memory gene—just like neurons do.

Scientists are still debating whether the human brain is capable of growing new cells past childhood. ... By analyzing postmortem brain tissue from people ages 19 to 92, ...