Preserved in formaldehyde, it looked like half a pancake ... of Medicine in Manhattan first stumbled across the neurons in human brain specimens in 1995, in a region toward the front of the ...

More than half of Black and Latina women in a study in South Los Angeles have reported using personal care products that ...

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to understand what makes our brain different from our closest relatives.

Scientists using living human brain tissue have shown for the first time how a toxic form of a protein linked to Alzheimer's ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Morphogens such as WNT and Sonic Hedgehog regulate gene activity in early brain development by directing stem cell differentiation. Sensitivity to these signals ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) N-cadherin, a cell adhesion protein, promotes neural stem cell adhesion, survival, and differentiation into neurons without additional chemical cues. Increased N ...

A team of more than 100 scientists recorded the cellular activity and mapped the structure in a cubic millimeter of a mouse’s brain.Credit... Supported by By Carl Zimmer The human brain is so ...