Pea-size clusters of human cells called brain organoids inspire both hope and fear. Experts are debating how scientists can ...

A new kind of microscope is giving scientists a way to watch life inside cells with a clarity that feels almost unfair.

“This is a paradigm shift,” says Donn Van Deren, PhD, postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, who ...

An international research team identified hundreds of genes essential for the development of brain cells, including one gene ...

Using advanced microscopes that capture brain cell anatomy and activity, a portion of a mouse's brain was mapped and rendered into a 3D atlas that creates new possibilities for neuroscience. When you ...

Both for research and medical purposes, researchers have spent decades pushing the limits of microscopy to produce ever deeper and sharper images of brain activity, not only in the cortex but also in ...

Elizabeth Jonas first got interested in mitochondria by chance. In 1995, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Yale, working at the Marine Biological Lab in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, where she was ...

Neuroscientists have long listened to the brain’s electrical spikes, but those loud crackles are only the final output of a ...