A pair of new studies have provided fresh evidence in the long-running scientific debate—and the result could be ...

"Super-agers" seem to produce more new nerve cells in a brain region important for memory than other people their age ...

What unique processes conspire to create a healthy, functional human brain? How can we be so genetically similar to, say, chimpanzees, and yet be light-years more sophisticated cognitively and ...

How does a single cell reliably build one of the most complex structures known in nature? New research suggests the answer ...

Researchers propose that brain cells inherit positional cues from their lineage and cluster near related cells to form large-scale structure. Mouse and zebrafish experiments support the model, with ...

WASHINGTON, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Scientists have reached a milestone in an ambitious initiative to chart how the many types of brain cells emerge and mature from the earliest embryonic and fetal stages ...