Our brains age along with the rest of our bodies, and as they do, they produce fewer new brain cells. Now, researchers have found a key mechanism through which the typical age-related decline in ...

Two new lines of brain research are testing whether aging cells can be nudged into working more like young ones. In one study ...

Lab-grown brain tissue learned to balance a virtual pole with 46% accuracy, revealing how living neural networks adapt and ...

A new study suggests that stem cells thought to be dormant may offer clues to why our sense of smell declines or is lost. Using a newly devised, three-dimensional model to study the regeneration of ...

In a small lab at the University of California, Santa Cruz, clusters of mouse brain cells have taken on a task normally reserved for computer algorithms: ...

Every process has a beginning and end, but sometimes the middle segment is the most interesting. This is an image of a neural stem cell in the midst of the process of differentiating into a neuron. In ...

Neural crest cells are a population of stem cells that invade the embryo in early development. They play a big role in what ...