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Researchers have created over 400 distinct types of human nerve cells in vitro, vastly expanding the diversity available for ...

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Nessa Yip explains the progress made by neuroscience towards answering a question at the centre of the human experience ...

Hysell V. Oviedo, Washington University in St. Louis (THE CONVERSATION) Some of the most complex cognitive functions are possible because different sides of your brain control them. Chief among them ...

Though it's now clear humans continue to grow new brain cells throughout their entire lives, debate persists over whether ...