Scientists explore how the immune and nervous systems constantly communicate, influencing brain diseases, behavior, and ...

Most neuroscience research carried out up to date has primarily focused on neurons, the most renowned type of cell in the ...

Researchers at the National University of Singapore have reported crossing the blood–brain barrier with help from a modified Lactobacillus plantarum. By delivering an appetite-regulating hormone ...

In a new study published in Science, a Belgian research team explores how genetic switches controlling gene activity define ...

A discovery at the Kavli Institute at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Norway has uncovered a ...

In a study published today in Nature Communications, the researchers have discovered a new type of brain cell that plays a ...

Learn about our Editorial Policies. The brain is a complicated network of connections and functions, but its inner machinations remain an enigma. In a huge collaborative effort, researchers profiled ...

Although neurons are considered the basic units of the brain and nervous system, they do not do all the work. Glia are a non-neuronal category of cells that do not transmit electrical signals but ...

Like the periodic table of elements, which has enabled generations of scientists to predict the existence of yet-undiscovered elements and the behavior of those already known, the brain-cell ...

The medication specifically targets tau proteins, which typically help maintain healthy brain cell structure but can become toxic when they malfunction. When these proteins begin to cluster ...

Humans have an estimated hundred billion neurons, or brain cells, each with about a thousand connections to other cells. One of the great challenges of modern neuroscience is to map out all the ...