In a town on the shores of Lake Geneva sit clumps of living human brain cells for hire. These blobs, about the size of a ...

A collection of studies that chart how mammalian brain cells grow and differentiate is a ‘very valuable’ tool for ...

STANFORD, Calif. -- For decades researchers have been peering into the human brain, trying to unlock the secrets of conditions ranging from autism to epilepsy to mental illness. But now, instead of ...

Lab-grown “reductionist replicas” of the human brain are helping scientists understand fetal development and cognitive ...

A global consortium of scientists has created the first and most detailed "developmental maps" of the mammalian brain (from ...

There are those who aim to culture human brain cells in a laboratory and transform them into biological circuits to create a ...

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 ...

Scientists have unveiled a groundbreaking preliminary atlas charting the intricate development of brain cells from early ...

Scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School and their collaborators have created one of the most comprehensive single cell maps ...