Neural tissue engineering aims to mimic the brain's complex environment, the extracellular matrix, which supports nerve cell ...

UCR scientists create a fully synthetic model for growing brain cells that could allow for animal-free drug testing.

Diesel exhaust particles can disturb the function of human brain immune cells, known as microglia, according to a recent ...

Researchers have created functional brain-like tissue without relying on any animal-derived materials, marking a major step toward more ethical and reproducible neurological research.

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have discovered a natural mechanism that clears existing amyloid plaques in the ...

During the early thirties, the brain’s wiring pattern moves into what the researchers describe as the adult mode. This adult ...

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Because the cerebellum has long been known for coordinating the timing and precision of fluid muscle movements, it was important for me to position cerebellar motor functions as a central player when ...

In A Nutshell • A pig kidney with just one genetic modification functioned in a human for 61 days before being removed as ...