Researchers uncover a potential new path to spinal cord regeneration Nerve cells in our limbs can regenerate after injury, but neurons in the central nervous system, which includes the brain... Read more
A new understanding of the sense of touch A research team including University of Wyoming neurobiologist Jeff Woodbury has discovered a new technique to determine how the touch sensory syste... Read more
British scientists are claiming to have made a major breakthrough after creating brain tissue from human skin. The researchers have for the first time generated crucial types of human... Read more
Plasticity is believed to be one of the key factors that allows us to learn The human brain contains approximately 100 billion neurons, and each one of those communicates with many ot... Read more
The fabrication of appropriate scaffolds is a vital step in the process of tissue engineering Lasers have been used to fabricate tiny scaffolds to be used as delivery vehicles to drop cells... Read more
What’s new, and old, about the latest in computing Today IBM unveiled a new ‘cognitive computing’ microchip that, according to the company, emulates some of the brain... Read more
No organ in the human body is as resistant to study as the brain. Whereas researchers can examine living cells from the liver, lung and heart, taking a biopsy of the brain is, for many reaso... Read more
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a technology that temporarily activates – or inactivates – parts of the brain using magnetic stimulation. Its ability to selectively turn areas of... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Over the years science has gleaned an enormous amount of knowledge from the humble fruit fly. Drosophila melanogaster was used to provide the post-Mendelian foundations f... Read more
Image via Wikipedia A detailed, functional artificial human brain can be built within the next 10 years, a leading scientist has claimed. Henry Markram, director of the Blue Brain Project, h... Read more
There are more than 30 million people with dementia worldwide There is no cure for Alzheimer’s, the insidious fatal disease which slowly kills all your brain cells. Already the seventh leadi... Read more