DZNE researchers have uncovered a mechanism that determines why a neuron usually forms a single, long extension called an ...

DZNE researchers have uncovered a mechanism that determines why a neuron usually forms a single, long extension called “axon” – a phenomenon that is fundamental to how our brain functions. Contrary to ...

For years, one of the simplest explanations for human intelligence was also one of the biggest: the human brain has an ...

Researchers engineered a nanodevice that senses and processes light in one structure. It mimicked neuron-like behavior, ...

Researchers have identified a previously overlooked mechanism of brain cell death that appears to play a major role in ...

Even in the primary visual cortex, a brain region named for its specialized role in processing basic features of what the eyes see, not every neuron ends up answering the call to process properties of ...

Interim clinical findings from the first Phase I/IIa trial using autologous-induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived ...

Cell death in dementia has long posed a frustrating problem. Toxic proteins pile up inside neurons in Alzheimer’s disease and ...

The team worked for 10 years to uncover the hidden brain-cell death process fueling several dementias, revealing a key new ...

While early in life, the accumulation of iron appears to have little effect on neuron function, later in life, it can ...