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Scientists mapped how the brain assembles itself from scratch

The human brain is often compared to a computer, but the latest wave of research shows it is closer to a self-building city, ...

Creating cells that help the brain keep its cool

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have created a method that makes it possible to transform the brain's support cells ...

Scientists Discover Brain Cells That Switch Anxiety On and Off

“This is a paradigm shift,” says Donn Van Deren, PhD, postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, who ...
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Brain organoids are helping researchers, but their use also creates unease

Pea-size clusters of human cells called brain organoids inspire both hope and fear. Experts are debating how scientists can ...
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Scientists produce painstaking wiring diagram of a mouse's brain

WASHINGTON, April 9 (Reuters) - Neuroscientists have produced the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date using tissue from a part of a mouse's cerebral cortex involved ...
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This rare genetic mutation kills brain cells, and we finally know why

Experiments on an ultra-rare genetic mutation that causes neurodegeneration in children have helped uncover a new mechanism by which brain cells die. The findings raise the possibility that similar ...
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Brain cells are more plastic than previously thought, study shows

Neurons are the cells in the brain responsible for sending messages to the rest of the body, and scientists have long thought that they are settled into one subtype once they develop from stem cells, ...
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Are mitochondria the key to a healthy brain?

Elizabeth Jonas first got interested in mitochondria by chance. In 1995, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Yale, working at the Marine Biological Lab in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, where she was ...