Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have shown that specific brain cells respond differently to H3.3 K27M, a ...

Models of how the brain changes over time could help researchers to understand how diseases affect the organ later in life.

At birth, the brain is far from fully developed. Neural connections are formed at a rapid pace during the first weeks of life, and blood vessels—which supply oxygen and nutrients to nerve cells—follow ...

Researchers kept human brain organoids developing for over five years, revealing prolonged maturation that mirrors human ...

Studying the process of brain formation illuminates just how much of development is a series of tiny miracles. Only a few weeks after a human egg is fertilized, a sheet of cells called the neural ...

Learn how brain tumor growth may depend not only on cancer-causing mutations, but also on the molecular conditions in specific brain regions. Doctors have noticed for generations that brain tumors do ...

“Do you know why you shouldn’t talk to strangers?” asks a police officer standing at the front of a classroom to a room full of students. Emily’s hand shoots up and the teacher encourages her to ...

Houston Methodist neuroscientists have developed a first-of-its-kind method to rapidly produce synchronized, human brain wave-like activity in lab-grown neural networks that can communicate over long ...

Scientists are discovering that our tendency to develop certain phobias might be written in our DNA before we even encounter the things that terrify us. Evidence from twin studies suggests that ...