Researchers are no longer just simulating brains in silicon, they are wiring living human neurons into machines and asking them to compute. Tiny clusters of brain cells, grown from stem cells and ...

We can get silicon to "think" but the neuron can't be beat for efficiency. So, researchers worked to imitate it.

Engineers at Northwestern University have taken a striking leap toward merging machines with the human brain by printing ...

Cells long thought to play a secondary role in brain function build their own far-reaching connections, according to a new ...

Long dismissed as ‘brain glue,’ star-shaped cells called astrocytes are emerging as a breakthrough in treating Alzheimer’s ...

Northwestern University engineers printed artificial neurons that don't just imitate the brain—they talk to it. In a new ...

The same brain cells activate when you see something and when you imagine it, helping explain why mental images can feel so ...

Scientists mapped human brain development in Down syndrome at a cellular level, discovering that stem cells "rush" to become ...

Place cells are neurons in the brain’s memory center, the hippocampus, that help the brain keep track of the body’s location in space. Arrays of these cells form a cognitive map, firing off electrical ...

STING" molecular switch drives Alzheimer's brain inflammation. Blocking this switch protects synapses in new study.

A thin strip of flexible film, printed with layers of graphene and molybdenum disulfide ink, fired electrical spikes into a ...