New research using human brain organoids shows that early neural activity follows structured, time-based patterns long before sensory experience begins.

Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Tal Sharf's lab used organoids to make fundamental discoveries about human ...

A computer model developed by researchers from Japan and Seattle's Allen Institute could lead to new methods for studying ...

The authors have performed a potentially valuable new kind of analysis in connectomics, mapping to an interesting developmental problem of synaptic input to sensory neurons. While the analysis itself ...

Humans have long wondered when and how we begin to form thoughts. Are we born with a pre-configured brain, or do thought ...

Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest types of tumors. A team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) reports that ...

The axon terminals, also known as terminal buttons, are the branched endings of the axon. These terminals form synapses with ...

The olfactory epithelium, located in the nasal cavity, is the starting point of the olfactory pathways. It consists of three ...

The brain is a complex organ that regulates everything you do. It sends and receives chemical and electrical signals through the body that control and coordinate thought, memory, emotion, ...