Stanford researchers implanted lab-grown human brain tissue into newborn rats, where it matured, connected to neural circuits ...

Human stem cell-derived neurons repaired breathing circuits and improved respiratory function in injured rats.

A new study reveals that powerful, happy childhood scent memories are encoded by neurons generated just after birth. As we ...

The animals may help reveal the causes of brain disease in people and point the way to treatments. But researchers already ...

Neurons in humans and other mammals express many exceptionally long genes, ranging from more than 100 kbp to more than 2 Mbp, ...

Shingles can cause pain that is notoriously difficult to manage and can last for months to years for some people. The pain ...

Neurons receive thousands of signals via tree-like extensions called dendrites. Until now, these dendrites were thought to be ...

Google and Janelia mapped a fruit fly's 166,000 neurons. Developers used the data to trade crypto, play chess, and control ...

For centuries, scientists have thought of the brain as a single, unified organ. But new research led by Stanford Medicine ...

Virtually all high-grade, aggressive gliomas in adults accumulate massive amounts of a metabolite called guanidinoacetate ...

To find out, the researchers, working in mice, studied the direct connections between gliomas and a specific group of brain ...

Much like a courier reading an address on a package, neurons must deliver RNA to the precise locations where it is needed.