The hippocampus is an important brain region known to support various cognitive (i.e., mental) processes, including the encoding and retrieval of memories, learning, decision-making and the regulation ...

Today, an international team of researchers shared an extraordinarily detailed atlas of human brain cells, mapping its staggering diversity of neurons. The atlas was published as part of a massive ...

Miniature models of the brain have revealed a "previously unappreciated" role of microglia, a type of cell found within the ...

A new atlas of the human brain could help explain abilities like language – and vulnerabilities, like Alzheimer's disease.

Origin-recognition complex (ORC) plays an unexpectedly broad role in the regulation of human cell gene expression, according to a study in the journal Cell Reports.

Japanese researchers have created the world's first 3D jawbone-like organoids from human-induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells ...