There are magical objects scattered around Danny L Harle's studio in Hackney. A small dark silver knight wedges himself ...

If walls could talk, the ones at Rolling Hills Asylum would have enough stories to fill a library, and most of them would be ...

My topic of research was developing an optical tactile sensor to track head motion during radiotherapy. I worked on both the hardware and software development of this sensor, though my focus was ...

Growing neurons rely on chemical cues to find their targets, but new research shows that the brain’s physical properties help shape those signals. Scientists discovered that tissue stiffness can ...

A group of specialized cells play a crucial part in clearing toxic proteins from inside the brain 1. But in people with Alzheimer’s disease, these cells malfunction, leading to the build up of tau ...

Scientists at MIMETAS have published a new study describing a scalable, self-assembling human blood-brain barrier (BBB) model that combines physiological relevance with high-throughput capability. The ...

A pair of new studies have provided fresh evidence in the long-running scientific debate—and the result could be game-changing for treating diseases like Alzheimer’s and dementia.

Advanced 3D reconstructions of the comb jelly’s aboral organ reveal a sensory system far more complex than scientists expected. The organ contains a wide variety of specialized cells and is closely ...

How does a single cell reliably build one of the most complex structures known in nature? New research suggests the answer ...

What was your favorite toy growing up? This paradox claims that memory—and every other one—is just a random fluctuation.

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Ginty shares the 2026 Brain Prize for research that has revealed the cellular machinery and neural signals underlying our ...