Seeing and moving are directly linked in the brain. When we stand still, the visual scene barely shifts. When we run, by ...

Learn more about the cloned mouse that followed Dolly the sheep, and why cloning is still a taboo subject ...

Craniosynostosis is a congenital developmental disorder in which the skull's cranial sutures fuse prematurely.

A tiny head-mounted microscope lets researchers watch and activate individual brain cells while mice move freely.

Over a decade ago, scientists redefined how to study organ development by generating seemingly unremarkable clumps of cells. They dubbed them organoids: organ-like microstructures produced using stem ...

In cell culture labs around the world, human brain organoids live out their short lives as neural guinea pigs, testing the effects of diseases, toxins, and new pharmaceuticals. But they may soon be on ...

Clumps of mouse brain cells about the size of peppercorns can gain the knowhow to perform a virtual circus trick. With some coaching, these mouse brain organoids learned to keep a pole upright on a ...

Put “Alien” on standby — because science may be inching a tiny step closer to real-life cryosleep. In a breakthrough that sounds ripped straight from a Ridley Scott flick, researchers in Germany have ...

A familiar trope in science fiction is the cryopreserved time traveller, their body deep-frozen in suspended animation, then thawed and reawakened in another decade or century with all of their mental ...

We identified a distinct cluster of neurons in the medial amygdala of mice showing a striking on/off pattern of c-fos promoter activity. This cluster is consistently active in females, independent of ...

Creating a virtual brain may sound like a science-fiction nightmare, but for neuroscientists in Japan and at Seattle’s Allen Institute, it’s a big step toward a long-held dream. They say their ...