Researchers are no longer just simulating brains in silicon, they are wiring living human neurons into machines and asking them to compute. Tiny clusters of brain cells, grown from stem cells and ...

Cells long thought to play a secondary role in brain function build their own far-reaching connections, according to a new ...

Engineers at Northwestern University have taken a striking leap toward merging machines with the human brain by printing ...

Your brain is the most complex structure in the known universe, and it’s a masterpiece of efficiency. It calculates ...

Long dismissed as ‘brain glue,’ star-shaped cells called astrocytes are emerging as a breakthrough in treating Alzheimer’s ...

Cells long thought to play a secondary role in brain function build their own far-reaching connections, a new study in mice showed. These pathways appear to connect distant regions in ways that have ...

Northwestern University engineers printed artificial neurons that don't just imitate the brain—they talk to it. In a new ...

The same brain cells activate when you see something and when you imagine it, helping explain why mental images can feel so ...

Scientists have created a super-map of the brain containing 30 million cells to trace the prenatal origins of diseases.

Leuven, 10 March 2026 - A new study led by researchers from VIB and KU Leuven shows that immune cells called microglia can actively promote the formation of plaques in Alzheimer’s disease, challenging ...

Scientists mapped human brain development in Down syndrome at a cellular level, discovering that stem cells "rush" to become ...