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The potential for these kinds of machines to reshape computer processing, increase energy efficiency, and revolutionize medical testing has scientists excited. But when do we consider these cells to ...

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 the hippocampus, a critical brain region for learning and memory, new cells emerge in some people into late adulthood, ...

When doctors describe your brain scan as a “starry sky,” it’s not good TB is the deadliest infection in the world—but it doesn't often look like this.

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine, have developed a groundbreaking therapy for Alzheimer’s disease by using stem cells to program human immune cells for targeted treatment.

An AI-powered brain-computer interface (BCI) solution translates brain activity into synthesized speech at nearly real-time speed.

Putting humans into a state of suspended animation has been a sci-fi aspiration for decades. In Ridley Scott’s iconic film Alien, the crew of the Nostromo emerge from cryo-pods as they approach ...

Now, scientists at Gladstone Institutes and the regenerative medicine company SanBio have shown that a cell therapy derived from stem cells can restore normal patterns of brain activity after a stroke ...