A sweeping genetic screen reveals how the brain is built and exposes a hidden gene behind a newly discovered childhood brain ...

The way the brain develops can shape us throughout our lives, so neuroscientists are intensely curious about how it happens.

As prominent artificial intelligence (AI) researchers eye limits to the current phase of the technology, a different approach ...

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

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

By editing thousands of genes in mouse stem cells, the scientists identified a list of over 300 that are crucial for neural differentiation.

Which genes are required for turning embryonic stem cells into brain cells, and what happens when this process goes wrong? In ...

Emily Sylwestrak is in the Department of Biology and at the Institute of Neuroscience, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403, USA. The brain’s vast diversity of cell types has long captivated ...

Research led by the SickKids Research Institute in Toronto and the University of Pennsylvania, has found that immune-related ...

Pea-size clusters of human cells called brain organoids inspire both hope and fear. Experts are debating how scientists can ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Scientists have reached a milestone in an ambitious initiative to chart how the many types of brain cells emerge and mature from the earliest embryonic and fetal stages until ...