An inspirational cancer patient has donated part of his brain to help find a cure for Alzheimer's Disease. Aidan McAllister, 28, underwent the ground-breaking operation as a live donor in a ...

Late one night at Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan, Shigenori Inagaki, PhD, was stuck. For a year, he had been testing spherical polymers to make living brain tissue transparent, an idea his ...

Tiny micro- and nanoplastic fragments seem to be turning up everywhere, including one of the most well-protected parts of the human body—the brain. In a recent study conducted by Chinese researchers, ...

Scientists have identified two specific types of brain cells that behave differently in people with depression, offering a clearer picture of what is happening inside the brain. By analyzing donated ...

Scientists have found higher levels of minuscule plastic particles in brain tissue surrounding tumours than in samples of healthy brain 1. Runting Li at Capital Medical University in Beijing and his ...

Engineers have printed tiny, artificial neurons that can "talk" to mouse brain cells, and the development could pave the way to innovations in computing and medicine. The work, published April 15 in ...

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Eating a combination of two award-winning diets slowed aging in key structures inside the brain by over two years, according to a new study. While all three diets are plant-based and quite similar, ...

A familiar trope in science fiction is the cryopreserved time traveller, their body deep-frozen in suspended animation, then thawed and reawakened in another decade or century with all of their mental ...

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: keeping a simulated pole balanced upright. The ...

Everyone has a chore they despise the most. According to a 2021 YouGov poll, laundry tops the list for Americans alongside cleaning the bathroom and washing dishes. But let's face it, unless you want ...