A team led by HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow Shan Meltzer has created a detailed, cell-by-cell map of the spinal cord that offers a new framework for understanding chronic pain and provides a powerful new ...

Touch—the first sense to develop in the womb—is fundamental to our bodily experience and our everyday lives. Yet, as the least studied of the five senses, it remains somewhat mysterious at the ...

Growing neurons rely on chemical cues to find their targets, but new research shows that the brain’s physical properties help ...

When life ruptures your sense of self, creativity is how the brain rewrites the story. Here's the neuroscience behind why it ...

By fine tuning the motion of molecules, scientists created an injectable therapy that encouraged the growth of neurites and ...

By fine tuning the motion of molecules, scientists created an injectable therapy that encouraged the growth of neurites and neurons in damaged spinal organoids.

Researchers from Midwestern University in Arizona say the technique can reduce chronic stress, which may make the disease spread more easily.

Callosum, founded by two Cambridge-trained neuroscientists and inspired in part by the brain, has a system for optimizing workloads across different types of chips ...

Thousands of visa-holders in Queensland could lose their jobs after the long-awaited e-mobility safety inquiry suggested e-bike riders must hold a driver’s licence.

The U.S. Congress greenlit a historic $315 million in federal ALS research funding for 2026 amid Rare Disease Month, spotlighting biotech progress like VectorY Therapeutics' first patient dosing in ...

In A Nutshell Researchers used a light-based brain imaging technique in mice to watch, in real time, what happens in the brain during a psychedelic experience and found a specific electrical rhythm ...

Although doctors can identify the condition, scientists are still trying to understand exactly why it happens and how the brain develops differently. The human brain is made of billions of tiny cells ...