Microplastics have been found in our lungs, guts, and even our blood. Now, researchers say they may reduce protective enzymes ...

Modern imaging is contributing significantly to giving us a better understanding of how our brains work. In the long term, this will also help us to treat learning disorders in a more targeted way and ...

The researchers treated mouse serum with microplastics to form the microplastics that absorbed proteins, according to a ...

To navigate something as complex and dynamic as the brain, a map would help. Researchers have learned an enormous amount about how we think, what drives our behaviors, and why we feel the way we do ...

Long dismissed as impossible, nerve regrowth is offering new hope for healing injuries and treating neurodegeneration ...

Just a few weeks after conception, stem cells are already orchestrating the future structure of the human brain. A new Yale-led study shows that, early in development, molecular “traffic cops” known ...

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the process differed from the evolution of chimpanzees. For the study, published ...

When we think about drinking enough water, most of us focus on physical health benefits glowing skin, proper digestion, healthy kidneys, or better exercise performance. But what many overlook is that ...

As fast as artificial intelligence can process information with its ever-expanding network of digital neurons—every line of code, every algorithm—it has yet to think with the efficiency of the human ...

The vagus nerve functions as a communication channel that links the brain to the gut system. The brain receives chemical ...