Resting brain stem cells hardly differ from normal astrocytes, which support the nerve cells in the brain. How can almost identical cells perform such different functions? The key lies in the ...

Scientists say they have very strong evidence that the adult human brain is capable of making new neurons, a point of ongoing ...

A decade after her fatal prognosis, Grace Wethor is “miraculously” living with brain cancer —and has become an author, ...

A study published in Cell Stem Cell reveals that some mutations in blood stem cells might help protect against late-onset ...

Instead, the model started with a row of stem cells roughly the size of the neural tube found in a four-week-old embryo—about 4 millimeters long and 0.2 millimeters in width.

Brain organoids are grown in a lab using stem cells, and can mimic the functions of different regions of the brain like the cortex, retina, and cerebellum. ... Earlier this week, I spoke with a ...

The team hopes the model can be used to improve scientists' understanding of brain diseases that emerge during early development. These might include microcephaly, for example. "The system itself ...

Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) have identified an innovation in stem cell therapy to regenerate neural cells in the brain after cardiac arrest in an animal model.

Researchers at the University of Freiburg have studied what happens immediately after a stroke in the stem cell niche known as the subventricular zone, using a mouse model. This revealed a mechanism ...

Scientists used pluripotent stem cells to grow human brain organoids in a lab that attach to computer chips. ... The tiny Terminator is only meant as a model for what future OI machines may look like.

Do synthetic mice dream of electric sheep? We’re on the way to finding out thanks to a breakthrough in stem cell research. It’s not going to overthrow mankind from a lab anytime soon, but a stell cell ...