Leibniz Institute for Primate Research and the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics have discovered ...

A popular hypothesis for how the brain clears molecular waste, which may help explain why sleep feels refreshing, is a ...

Most of us rely heavily on shipping services like FedEx or UPS to ensure we receive the correct packages. If that system was ...

New insights have emerged into how the human brain develops. Two genes that are unique to humans work together to influence ...

Did you ever look at the behavior of someone of the opposite sex and think, “It’s like they have completely different brains?” ...

The Nature Chemical Biology symposium series was designed ... and signaling”, and “synthetic neurobiology” to “brain matters”—and a keynote address from Linda Buck (Fred Hutchinson ...

Neurological disorders have been historically difficult to treat due to the intractable nature of the brain and nervous system. However, synthetic biology enables scientists to develop technologies ...

Scientists have been developing and refining methods to accurately measure the age and health of our brains, without cutting ...

Everything the brain does—from storing memories to interpreting sights to regulating emotions—requires energy, all produced ...

Mapping the density, molecular features and energy-transformation capacity of cell organelles called mitochondria in the brain reveals region- and cell-type-specific variability that tracks with ...

New structural markers of memory storage uncovered by Scripps Research may pave the way for new treatments for memory loss.