Meng Wang got hooked on aging research during her postdoc days at Harvard and Mass General. Like many of us, she noticed how ...

Scientists have discovered how stress can lead to serious mental health problems. To better understand the function of type I ...

Researchers have created a protein that can detect the faint chemical signals neurons receive from other brain cells. By ...

Why does running help the brain? New research using single-cell sequencing highlights specific genetic pathways restored by ...

Singapore has one of the highest life expectancies in the world, yet many individuals spend almost a decade in poor health ...

We can replace joints, lenses, even organs—but not the brain. As neuroscience unravels the mechanisms of neurodegeneration, ...

For decades, it was widely accepted that neurons relied exclusively on glucose to fuel their functions in the brain.

A new study suggests that how neurons process energy may determine whether they resist damage or begin to break down.

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

This study presents SynaptoGen, a differentiable extension of connectome models that links gene expression, protein-protein interaction probabilities, synaptic multiplicity, and synaptic weights, and ...

Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the human brain supports numerous advanced capabilities for centuries. The ...

A new ‘biomimetic’ model of brain circuits and function at multiple scales produced naturalistic dynamics and learning, and ...