One in five people worldwide suffers from chronic inflammatory pain. Meanwhile, about two thirds of those affected find little relief from existing pain medications; new therapeutic approaches are ...

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

A cellular-resolution map of prenatal brain development in Down syndrome reveals disrupted neuron production timing and altered cell types.

Researchers found sex-specific gene expression networks linked to Alzheimer’s pathology using single-cell and systems-level ...

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 ...

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

The communication network in the developing brain builds when neurons partner up to form contact points called synapses, allowing signals to pass from one cell to another. At the same time, a web of ...

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

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 ...

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