Look around, and you'll see it everywhere: the way trees form branches, the way cities divide into neighborhoods, the way the ...

In a potentially major breakthrough for regenerative medicine, scientists at MIT have developed a way to convert skin cells ...

Researchers have produced a full map of an adult fruit fly's brain cells This map could help us ... of the most bafflingly complex puzzles in the universe. But now, an international team of ...

Although neurons are considered the basic units of the brain and nervous system, they do not do all the work. Glia are a non-neuronal category of cells that do not transmit electrical signals but ...

Learn about our Editorial Policies. The brain is a complicated network of connections and functions, but its inner machinations remain an enigma. In a huge collaborative effort, researchers profiled ...

The discovery of ‘ovoid cells’ is transforming our understanding of memory and may pave the way for new treatments for ...

Now, biotech companies and researchers are interested in developing technologies that can determine not only cell type and location, but also shape and distribution of human and primate brain cells.

Our biceps and our brain cells may have more in common than previously thought. New research led by the Lippincott-Schwartz Lab shows that a network of subcellular structures similar to those ...

identified more than 700 such neurons in the human brain. These cells are involved in "social inference," our ability to read cues from other people's body language and expressions to draw ...

Generating a complete multimodal cell census and atlas of the mouse brain through collaborative data collection, tool development and analysis. This atlas combines single-cell transcriptomic ...