Scientists found microplastics in all examined human brains in a recent study, with highest levels discovered in dementia patients.

This article describes an automated brain organoid creation workflow using the CellXpress.ai system, beginning with iPSCs and ...

As a researcher, I still remember the discomfort I felt every time I had to sacrifice laboratory animals for an experiment. For decades, animals like mice, rats and pigs have been essential tools in ...

"If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't." — Emerson M. Pugh. In a previous piece, I argued that introspection may ...

Study maps five major eras of brain wiring from birth to old age, revealing the key turning points that shape how we learn, ...

People who lose their visual imagination after a stroke share damage to a single neural circuit. A new analysis maps these ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A biocomputer powered by lab-grown human brain cells has leveled ...

In 2022, Australian biotech startup Cortical Labs made a big splash after announcing that it had taught “mini-brains” consisting of 800,000 to one million living human brain cells in a petri dish how ...

Tracy Larson, University of Virginia assistant professor of biology: We can find cases where animals just do things better than we do. In the case of birds, they show this extreme ability to ...

Researchers have created one of the most realistic “mini-brains” yet, reports New Scientist, growing a tiny version of a developing human cerebral cortex, complete with a network of blood vessels that ...