A new study from Sweden’s Karolinska Institute offers strong evidence that the adult human brain can generate new neurons, ...

Research by Weizmann Institute scientist and Israel Prize winner saved 'countless lives,' was basis for technology sold for ...

Guest essayist Katie Digianantonio urges federal leaders to support funding for the National Institutes of Health and ...

In the darkest hour of the pandemic, when the world was gripped with fear and confusion, a leader emerged not merely with policies and protocols but with symbolism that ignited unity. The call to ...

Stanford researchers discovered that dialing down an overactive enzyme, LRRK2, can regrow lost cellular “antennae” in key ...

Incoming information from the retina is channeled into two pathways in the brain's visual system: one that's responsible for ...

The team suspects that neurogenesis happens in other parts of the adult brain, too. In mice, new neurons are regularly made ...

The ability to analyze gene expression at the single-cell level—known as single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq)—has ...

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

Scientists in Sweden led the study, published Thursday in Science. They found abundant signs of neural stem cells growing in ...

Professor Hirohide Saito (Department of Life Science Frontiers at CiRA / The University of Tokyo) and Assistant Professor ...

A compound best known for giving almonds and apricots their aroma may be the key to defeating hard-to-kill cancer cells. Japanese researchers found that benzaldehyde can stop the shape-shifting ...