When we learn a new skill, the brain has to decide—cell by cell—what to change. New research from MIT suggests it can do that ...

Scientists created an artificial neuron that operates at the same voltage as living cells and is able to communicate with the human brain.

Cortical Labs, the Melbourne-based biotech company that made headlines by teaching neurons to play Pong, is now building two small data centers powered by lab-grown human brain cells in Singapore and ...

Scientists placed 200,000 living human brain cells on a microchip and taught it how to play a doomsday video game — and are ...

In a sweeping new map of the adult Drosophila melanogaster brain, researchers at the University of Oxford found that mature neurons still carry a molecular record of where they came from and when they ...

A new study suggests AI systems could be a lot more efficient. Researchers were able to shrink an AI vision model to 1/1000th ...

While neurogenesis—the growth of new brain cells—typically slows with age, superagers produce new neurons in the hippocampus at twice the rate of healthy older adults. In contrast, individuals with ...

Some older adults with exceptional memory grow far more new neurons in the hippocampus, while Alzheimer’s brains show almost ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic, often debilitating autoimmune disease that affects the central nervous system (CNS). This disease causes the immune system to mistakenly attack the protective ...

New research from the University of Wyoming reveals that the brain cells that control hunger may be far more adaptable during ...

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Japan has approved two stem cell-based therapies for treating Parkinson's disease and heart failure in a world first, through ...