Astrocytes, once thought to be mere brain “support cells,” are now revealed to be key players in fear memory. Researchers found they actively help form, recall, and weaken fear responses by ...

Living robots have nervous systems, letting them control movement & change behavior, pointing to a future where biology ...

The brain is the most complex organ in the human body. Different parts of the brain perform a variety of functions, all of ...

The idea that two conditions at opposite ends of life might be biologically linked is beginning to upend long-standing ...

The 19th-century science fiction novel Frankenstein explores the idea of combining artificial materials with human body ...

Scientists create living robots with nervous systems, revealing how neurons grow, connect and shape movement in a new biological model.

The tumor begins before birth. Somewhere in the developing fetus, neural crest cells that should have matured into adrenal tissue or sympathetic ganglia take a wrong turn, and a child is born ...

Japanese researchers trained cultured rat cortical neurons to autonomously generate complex temporal signals using a ...

TalTech scientists in collaboration with researchers from Rockefeller University have described a mechanism that acts like a ...

Hundreds of billions of dollars are riding on the assumption that artificial intelligence will be reliable enough for ...

Researchers have mapped how "histone bivalency" acts as a molecular clock for brain development. By holding genes in a poised state, this mechanism ensures neurons mature only after completing ...