The stunning research is supercharging our understanding of human brain disorders and advancing U.S. national interests in ...

Mobile genetic elements may be a source of DNA sequence variation in normal human brain tissue. Geoff Faulkner, now at the University of Queensland, and colleagues showed that retrotransposons, which ...

A new technique has allowed scientists to freeze human brain tissue so that it regains normal function after thawing, potentially opening the door to improved ways of studying neurological conditions.

The tiny piece of tissue contained 3.4 ... took that same cubic millimeter of brain and sliced it into more than 28,000 layers, each 1/400 the width of a human hair, and took images of each ...

Researchers say they have mapped more than 200,000 cells in a cubic millimeter of brain tissue and have traced how they're ...

Persistently elevated glucose levels damage the delicate blood vessels supplying oxygen and nutrients to brain tissue ... lapses often get dismissed as normal aging but may represent diabetes ...

The 3D brain map includes more than 200,000 cells, 523 million synapses and over two miles of axons, representing the most detailed wiring diagram of a piece of mammal brain ever constructed ...

In the developing brain, neurons must navigate through complex and often crowded tissue to reach their final ...