The animals may help reveal the causes of brain disease in people and point the way to treatments. But researchers already are calling for new ethical guidelines. The animals may help reveal the ...

Researchers hope to shed light on conditions such as schizophrenia, epilepsy, cerebral palsy, intellectual disability and rare forms of dementia Researchers have created mice with half-human brains in ...

A massive study using brain scans of 35,000 people showed that those in positions of great socioeconomic power exhibit measurable differences in the white-matter networks that help different regions ...

SPRING, Texas (KTRK) -- A Spring High School student has died after being hit while attempting to cross the North Freeway, according to the Harris County Sheriff's Office. Deputies told Eyewitness ...

A side view of a "xenocortical" mouse brain, with the grafted human tissue seen in green and red. S. Pașca Lab / Stanford University In a research lab in California, mice that look ordinary on the ...

Stanford Medicine scientists have chalked up a major advance in growing human brain cells outside of the human brain — and outside of laboratory glassware. In a study published online Sept. 16 in ...

For centuries, scientists have thought of the brain as a single, unified organ. But new research led by Stanford Medicine reveals that what we call the brain is two distinct organs that evolved ...

The discovery could help scientists advance research into conditions including Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also called Lou Gehrig’s disease, and spinal muscular atrophy Scientists at Stanford ...

Neuroscientists in the US have successfully adapted mice to have functioning human cells inside their own brains. The researchers hope that potential treatments for psychiatric and neurodevelopmental ...

(CN) — For decades, scientists thought the entire brain started from the same type of progenitor cell. But in findings published Friday in Nature Neuroscience, researchers say the brain’s front and ...

Lab-grown organoids wire into mice missing a key part of their brain, offering a new way to test drugs for developmental conditions. Human brain tissue transplanted into mice that lack a key part of ...