Most people recognize Alzheimer's from its devastating symptoms such as memory loss, while new drugs target pathological aspects of disease manifestations, such as plaques of amyloid proteins. Now a ...

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 ...

Cells bumping against one another use electricity to identify which of their neighbors has the least energy to expel them.

For all of human history, death has been viewed as a final cessation of life in an organism, but new research is offering hope for restoration.

Spaceflight makes certain human stem cells age faster, a study finds, furthering the understanding of the possible effects of ...

Scientists at ETH Zurich have broken new ground by generating over 400 types of nerve cells from stem cells in the lab, far surpassing previous efforts that produced only a few dozen. By ...