Researchers say the innovation, known as SmartEM, will speed scanning sevenfold and open the field of connectomics to a ...

“This is a paradigm shift,” says Donn Van Deren, PhD, postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, who ...

Pea-size clusters of human cells called brain organoids inspire both hope and fear. Experts are debating how scientists can ...

Neuroscientists are closing in on a long elusive goal: pinpointing the exact brain cells that make anxiety surge or suddenly ...

Increasing the levels of a particular phospholipid in the membranes of brain cells may offer a promising new way to improve blood circulation in the brain and support healthier brain activity. A poten ...

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have created a method that makes it possible to transform the brain's support cells ...

Some parts of our bodies bounce back from injury in fairly short order. The outer protective layer of the eye-called the ...

Figure 1. Conceptual illustration of label-free, multiphoton photoacoustic microscope (LF-MP-PAM). Near-infrared femtosecond laser enable us to observe endogenous NAD(P)H of neurons in brain slice and ...

MIT researchers are using living cells to target diseased brain areas and deliver tiny electronic devices that can modulate ...