A team led by University of Pisa biologist Sara De Vincentiis used mini-brains grown in a lab to test a technique they're ...

Scientists at ETH Zurich have broken new ground by generating over 400 types of nerve cells from stem cells in the lab, far ...

Scientists have successfully grown over 400 different types of nerve cells from stem cells in the lab—a groundbreaking step toward replicating the complexity of the human brain.

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

Unlike the brain and spinal cord, peripheral nerve cells, whose long extensions reach the skin and internal organs, are capable of regenerating after injury. This is why injuries to the central ...

Nerve cells are not just nerve cells. Depending on how finely we distinguish, there are several hundred to several thousand ...

For the first time, researchers at ETH Zurich have successfully produced hundreds of different types of nerve cell from human ...

MRI findings indicate that smoking is linked to reduced brain volume, raising concerns about dementia risk, especially with ...

Vaccines to prevent infection − including the COVID vaccine − might be as important as anything you might do to maintain your brain health.

Researchers at Leipzig University’s Carl Ludwig Institute have discovered that in the cerebral cortex, synaptic signal ...

Neurodegenerative diseases are chronic conditions that cause nerve cells to lose function and die over many years. A decade-long, gradual mental decline often precedes this ultimately fatal process.