To enable movement, perception, memory, reasoning, emotion and various other functions, the human brain heavily relies on ...

For centuries, scientists have thought of the brain as a single, unified organ. But new research led by Stanford Medicine ...

The brain is an incredible organ, powering basic functions like breathing while also giving rise to human consciousness. That ...

For decades, the prevailing model held that a single kind of progenitor, or precursor, cell gave rise to the entire brain.

The human brain begins developing along two distinct paths, a discovery that could help scientists grow hard-to-make neurons in the lab.

Scientists are always thinking up crazy experiments to push our knowledge forward, and injecting human brain cells into mice ...

Researchers at Stanford University genetically altered mice to be able to receive and function with human brain cells.

Scientists have grown human brain tissue to fill most of a mouse’s cortex, creating a new model for studying brain disease and neural circuits.

As reported by NPR, Sergiu Pașca, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University, and his team ...

A comprehensive analysis of nearly 1,000 individuals reveals that while brain structure, function, and behavior can all predict a person's biological sex, an individual's degree of sex typicality in ...

Neuroscientists have made a major advance in modeling the human brain in mice, offering a new way to study conditions like cerebral palsy. Ethicists ask if it changes how these mice should be treated.