“Rather than following pre-programmed genetic instructions, cells are elevated to entities equipped with a very basic form of decision making based on learning from their environments,” said ...

They grew and integrated with the rodents’ own neural circuits, eventually making up around one-sixth of their brains. These animals could be used to learn more about human neuropsychiatric ...

In a new study published in Science, Yale researchers have identified how brain cells begin to coalesce into this wired ...

Inside cells are small compartments called organelles that perform specific functions essential for the cell’s survival and operation. For instance, the nucleus stores genetic material, and ...

How does the brain store knowledge so that you actually remember what you have learned the next day or even later? To find ...

T he planarian is nobody's idea of a genius. A flatworm shaped like a comma, it can be found wriggling through the muck of lakes and ponds worldwide. Its pin-size head has a microscopic structure ...

Human brain “organoids” wired themselves into rats’ nervous systems, influencing the animals’ sensations and behaviors. By Carl Zimmer Scientists have successfully transplanted clusters of ...

Scientists discover how cells absorb queuosine, a vital nutrient affecting memory, learning, and cancer resistance.

To understand how neurons form connections to one another, they developed a model based on Hebbian dynamics, a term coined by Canadian psychologist Donald Hebb in 1949 that essentially says, “neurons ...

But how do brain cells send messages? The first step in this messaging process is the action potential, or a wave of electricity triggered in the nerve cell, or neuron.The neurons found in the ...

In one test, they used Brainoware to try to solve mathematical equations. They also gave it a benchmark test for speech recognition, using 240 audio clips of eight people pronouncing Japanese vowels.

These brain cells decide when tasty becomes blech : Shots - Health News Scientists say two separate brain circuits control how much salt we consume. Shots Health News From NPR ...