Billions of birds share the planet with us. With their flamboyant plumage and joyous dawn serenades, many of them are impossible to miss. But how did they get here, how did they break the bounds of ...

We tend to think of the brain as being made up of highly specialised cells, but a study in mice suggests that most neurons ...

Every cell in the human body carries the same 3 billion letters of DNA, yet a neuron, a heart muscle cell and a pancreatic beta cell each use that shared code to do entirely different jobs. How cells ...

Why can zebrafish regenerate damaged gut nerves while humans largely cannot? Michigan State University researchers have developed a new research tool that allows them to remove gut neurons in ...

The brain is a vast, densely interconnected network of neurons computing in parallel. Watching these computations unfold in real time could reveal how the brain processes sensation and guides behavior ...

The brain is a vast, densely interconnected network of neurons computing in parallel. Watching these computations unfold in ...

Polyphenols are natural chemicals that plants make to protect themselves. Berries, tea, cocoa, coffee, whole grains, and ...

For decades, Alzheimer’s research has focused on clearing the sticky amyloid plaques that build up in the brain. Those drugs can slow the disease, but only modestly, and they do little to stop the ...

Alzheimer's has long been mysterious to researchers, particularly how tau proteins travel between neurons, but we may have ...

Abstract: The channel count of implantable neural interfaces has grown rapidly as brain-machine interface applications emerge from basic brain disorder monitoring, motor control, to voice ...

Abstract: Mammalian brains operate in very special surroundings: to survive they have to react quickly and effectively to the pool of stimuli patterns previously recognized as danger. Many learning ...