A Dartmouth study published in Nature Communications reveals that immune cells in the brain use a surprising two-step process ...

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As prominent artificial intelligence (AI) researchers eye limits to the current phase of the technology, a different approach is gaining attention: using living human brain cells as computational har ...

In experiments with mice, Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists report new evidence that precursors of myelin-producing cells—one ...

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New research reveals that certain brain tumors may originate silently within normal brain cells long before a tumor forms.

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The Arctic ground squirrel survives conditions that would cause irreparable brain damage in almost any other mammal on the ...

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