Bioengineering researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a ...

Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) implanted the device into living tadpoles’ neural plates, which are ...

A stem cell platform aims to recreate the brain's immune system using lab-grown human microglia cells, to understand how it ...

Real and imagined images are processed using the same systems in the brain, yet most people can distinguish between the two.

Deep within the brain, the ventral tegmental area does more than signal when we re rewarded it forecasts exactly when we ll be rewarded. This discovery came from an elegant collaboration between ...

Work described in this story was made possible in part by federal funding supported by taxpayers. At Harvard Medical School, the future of efforts ...

The stem cell-based embryo model (SCBEM) takes advantage of the flexibility of pluripotent stem cells (non-reproductive cells ...

Microglia — immune cells in the brain and spinal cord — play crucial roles in keeping the brain healthy, including helping ...

A new machine learning model shows that star-shaped brain cells may be responsible for the brain's memory capacity, and ...

A small region of the brain, known as the ventral tegmental area (VTA), plays a key role in how we process rewards. It ...

G oosebumps are one of those things, like the taste of your own spit or those weird noises your belly makes after you eat spicy food, that is so intrinsically part of our bodies you kind of forget how ...