A new study published in Psychiatry Research provides evidence that certain brain cells are physically smaller in individuals ...

Scientists have discovered that blood flow helps direct the movement of newly formed neurons in the adult brain, revealing a surprising link between circulation and brain cell migration.

Researchers have discovered how newly created neurons depend on blood flow in the adult brain to travel from their site of ...

An international research team, led by Shinghua Ding at the University of Missouri, has identified a previously unknown ...

Scientists said on Monday they had taken a first step towards being able to control stem cells -- master cells that have the ability to become any kind of cell in the body. Doctors hope one day these ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - Memory has long been exclusively associated with the brain, but a new study found that other parts of the body are also capable of making memories. The new research was published in ...

Stay up to date on the latest science with Brush Up Summaries. Nerve cells, or neurons, are the basic functional units of the nervous system. Multiple interconnected neurons form a neural circuit and ...

A neuron made in the lab now works almost like one in the body. A team of engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has announced the creation of an artificial neuron with electrical ...

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How do stem cells know what to become? Nearly three decades after scientists isolated the first human embryonic stem cells, researchers are still working hard to understand precisely how a single, ...