The gut-brain axis refers to the complex communication network linking the digestive system with the central nervous system.

Tiny human brain organoids survived for years outside the body, continued to mature, and even skipped ahead through stages of ...

The human brain has upward of 86 billion neurons, connected by some 100 trillion synapses ...

An international team of scientists developed human brain organoids for five full years in a lab to study how they age.

Peppercorn-sized clumps of human brain cells grown in a lab for a record seven years aged similarly to those inside our heads ...

The human brain is often described as one of the most complex structures in biology, and much of its power comes from how ...

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to understand what makes our brain different from our closest relatives. Our ...

A scientific team has shown that, under the right circumstances, 3D cell culture models of human brain tissue, known as organoids, can express features of later-stage brain development. This ...

A language-specific brain network can be identified even when a person is resting, listening to music, or doing a task unrelated to language. The network is usually concentrated in left frontal and ...

What unique processes conspire to create a healthy, functional human brain? How can we be so genetically similar to, say, chimpanzees, and yet be light-years more sophisticated cognitively and ...

Scientists discovered that human microglia, immune cells that help shape developing brain circuits, can take four to eight years to mature instead of just weeks as they do in mice. The unusually slow ...

Human brain tissue usually deteriorates rapidly after death. Archaeological records, however, show that this outcome is not inevitable. Researchers writing in Proceedings of the Royal Society B ...