Functioning brain cells need a functioning system for picking up the trash and sorting the recycling. But when the cellular ...

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

Among the newly identified brain cell types were some in the neocortex and the striatum region, which controls movement and certain other functions. Scientists have reached a milestone in an ambitious ...

Challenging a long-standing assumption regarding the adult brain, recent research has demonstrated that individuals can continue to develop new brain cells into old age. Researchers at Sweden’s ...

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

A large genetic screen has revealed how stem cells transform into brain cells, exposing hundreds of genes that make this process possible. Among the discoveries is PEDS1, a gene now linked to a ...

New research reveals how a class of neurons that help coordinate communication in the brain link up with their target cells, ...

FRIDAY, Jan. 23, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Brain tumors are abnormal growths of cells in or around the brain. They can be ...

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

Decoding the complex communication system of the deadliest brain cancer has revealed that an already approved HIV drug could ...

New evidence shows that precursors of myelin-producing cells — one of the few #brain cell types that continue to be produced ...