In 2022, the Australian company Cortical Labs made headlines by successfully getting artificial neurons to play the classic ...

Researchers are no longer just simulating brains in silicon, they are wiring living human neurons into machines and asking ...

As prominent artificial intelligence (AI) researchers eye limits to the current phase of the technology, a different approach ...

By contrast, glial cells seemed to be electrically silent and were dismissed as dull by most researchers. Some glia, called ...

STANFORD, Calif. -- For decades researchers have been peering into the human brain, trying to unlock the secrets of conditions ranging from autism to epilepsy to mental illness. But now, instead of ...

Brain organoids can be a good step forward, assuming they are grown from induced human pluripotent stem cells. That allows us to sidestep ethical concerns about the use of human embryos, thereby ...

Brain organoids are revolutionising research, but their growing complexity raises unsettling ethical questions.

Researchers at the University of Geneva, together with colleagues in Switzerland, France, the United States and Israel, ...

Researchers collaborating on a BRAIN Initiative project unveiled the most comprehensive map of developing mammalian brains to ...

Researchers around the world are studying how the human brain achieves its extraordinary complexity. A team at the Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim and the German Primate Center—Leibniz ...

What unique processes conspire to create a healthy, functional human brain? How can we be so genetically similar to, say, chimpanzees, and yet be light-years more sophisticated cognitively and ...

A significant, long-term reduction in calorie consumption resulted in a slowing of aging in the brain, according to a study ...