Studying the process of brain formation illuminates just how much of development is a series of tiny miracles. Only a few weeks after a human egg is fertilized, a sheet of cells called the neural ...

Scientists have reached a milestone in an ambitious initiative to chart how the many types of brain cells emerge and mature from the earliest embryonic and fetal stages until adulthood, knowledge that ...

Your baby’s brain is one of the first major organs to start developing. Learn more about fetal brain development and what ...

Early-life adversity affects more than half of the world's children and is a significant risk factor for cognitive and mental health problems later in life. In an extensive and up-to-the-minute review ...

UCR scientists create a fully synthetic model for growing brain cells that could allow for animal-free drug testing.

Researchers at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CUH) are testing a wearable ‘cap’ for premature and newborn infants at high-risk of developing brain conditions such as epilepsy, ...

Understanding how the brain learns and applies rules is the key to unraveling the neural basis of flexible behavior. A new ...

Ninety percent of cancer deaths are from cancer spread. Breast cancer patients, for example, typically do not die because cancer returns in their breast, they die because it spreads to other parts of ...

Researchers are investigating how fluid moving around brain tumors drives glioblastoma’s spread and to develop more precise, ...