A new study led by researchers at UTHealth Houston investigated both gene expression and regulation at single cell levels to ...

New research reveals how a class of neurons that help coordinate communication in the brain link up with their target cells, ...

A large genetic screen has revealed how stem cells transform into brain cells, exposing hundreds of genes that make this ...

In a revealing Genomic Press Interview published today in Genomic Psychiatry, Dr. Maria Margarita Behrens recounts an extraordinary scientific journey that wound through four countries and multiple ...

Some parts of our bodies bounce back from injury in fairly short order. The outer protective layer of the eye-called the ...

Neurons are the cells in the brain responsible for sending messages to the rest of the body, and scientists have long thought that they are settled into one subtype once they develop from stem cells, ...

In a potentially major breakthrough for regenerative medicine, scientists at MIT have developed a way to convert skin cells directly into brain cells extremely efficiently, without needing to go ...

Whether or not we grow new brain cells as adults has been the subject of an ongoing and often contentious debate. Now, evidence suggests that we can. This could help answer one of neuroscience’s most ...

Most of the time, you assume your brain is either “on” or “off,” awake or asleep. A new study shows something far more ...

Human bodies are usually described as chemical engines, powered by glucose and oxygen. Yet a wave of new research suggests ...