The way the brain develops can shape us throughout our lives, so neuroscientists are intensely curious about how it happens.

The sound of a fire alarm tells us to get out quickly to not get hurt, while the sight of a gas station sign can signal a ...

A newly identified enzyme appears to control tau production, brain inflammation, and aging. Researchers at the University of ...

A new study reveals how biological branching networks use surface geometry to shape blood vessels, brains, and plants.

Researchers from Kyushu University discovered a previously unrecognized synaptic “hotspot” that forms during adolescence, ...

An alternative splicing regulator previously implicated in calcium signaling in the heart ensures cell-type-specific mRNA processing of long neuronal mRNAs in the mouse brain.

Early in Alzheimer’s disease, your brain can begin to change long before anyone notices a lost name or missed appointment.

Using participant skin cells reprogrammed into neurons, Weill Cornell Medicine researchers have identified genetic signatures ...

Transferring mitochondria, or the glial cells that produce them, to mice with nerve damage mitigated pain, suggesting a ...

Pain sensing neurons in the gut kindle inflammatory immune responses that cause allergies and asthma, according to a new ...