Researchers have applied a visualization technique to depict the brain's activity related to visual perception as geometric patterns. They visualized different shapes as the ever-changing neuronal ...

Human evolution has revolved around food, from identifying and foraging for it to growing and preparing it. Researchers have identified a region in the brain's visual cortex that responds to food and ...

In the mid-1670s, Johannes Swammerdam, a Dutch biologist, peered through his microscope at a honeybee's brain and drew what ...

These are the best STEM toys for children of all ages. Shop editor and expert loved chemistry sets, circuit boards, ...

The Noonan lab at Yale University is focused on understanding how HARs contribute to the evolution of uniquely human brain features.

Scientists have discovered that neural stem cells (NSCs) receive constant feedback from their daughter cells, influencing whether they remain dormant or activate to form new neurons and glia.

Family Day includes STEM activities organized by nonprofit partners such as the Tulane Brain Institute and Ochsner Health. The Saints and Pelicans cheer teams will show up with their mascots ...

The brain stem, illustrated in orange above, connects the main part of the brain to the spinal cord. (Image credit: Shutterstock) The team focused on the brain stems of mice to build on research ...

Serenity Strull/ BBC/ Getty Images) The locus coeruleus lies in the brain stem, just above the back of the neck – and contains around 50,000 cells, a tiny portion of the 86 billion neurons in ...

Introduction: Neurosphere culture is widely used to expand neural stem and progenitor cells (NSPCs ... will improve our chances of using NSPCs for neurodevelopmental and brain repair studies with the ...

It is created by culturing pluripotent stem cells into a three-dimensional culture that can be kept for years. Since the brain is an incredibly complicated system of heterogeneous tissues and ...