Functioning brain cells need a functioning system for picking up the trash and sorting the recycling. But when the cellular ...

In experiments with mice, Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists report new evidence that precursors of myelin-producing cells—one ...

Among the newly identified brain cell types were some in the neocortex and the striatum region, which controls movement and certain other functions. Scientists have reached a milestone in an ambitious ...

A Dartmouth study published in Nature Communications reveals that immune cells in the brain use a surprising two-step process ...

A new 3D human brain tissue platform developed by MIT researchers is the first to integrate all major brain cell types, including neurons, glial cells and the vasculature into a single culture. Grown ...

New research reveals how a class of neurons that help coordinate communication in the brain link up with their target cells, ...

Researchers in Japan built a miniature human brain circuit using fused stem-cell–derived organoids, allowing them to watch the thalamus and cortex interact in real time. They found that the thalamus ...

A stem cell therapy for stroke restored neuron function and revealed how transplanted cells navigate the nervous system.

FRIDAY, Jan. 23, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Brain tumors are abnormal growths of cells in or around the brain. They can be ...

WASHINGTON (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 until ...

New evidence shows that precursors of myelin-producing cells — one of the few #brain cell types that continue to be produced ...