A team of researchers discover how the stentor, an organism made of a single, gigantic cell, learns without a brain.

Single-cell RNA sequencing is giving researchers a clearer view of why some CAR-T cells persist, expand, kill tumors ...

Researchers at UC San Francisco and Imperial College London have shown that a single dose of psilocybin, the psychedelic ...

Scientists have discovered a way to activate a built-in brain cleanup system that may help counter Alzheimer’s disease. By ...

One of life's many mysteries is how it ended up choosing only a set of 20 amino acids to build proteins for its wide catalog ...

Scientists have discovered a way to help the brain clean itself of harmful Alzheimer’s plaques by activating its own support cells. By increasing a protein called Sox9, researchers were able to boost ...

Cedars-Sinai researchers created “young” immune cells from human stem cells that reversed cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s symptoms in mice. The treated animals showed better memory and healthier ...

The emergence of neuropsychiatric disorders, conditions that affect various brain functions and behaviors, is known to be ...

In mouse brains, star-shaped astrocytes form flexible networks that may offer another way for brain regions to communicate.

In mouse brain cells, and in follow-up work involving worms and human cortical neurons, the team found that many axons ...