By editing thousands of genes in mouse stem cells, the scientists identified a list of over 300 that are crucial for neural differentiation.

A sweeping genetic screen reveals how the brain is built and exposes a hidden gene behind a newly discovered childhood brain ...

Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have linked genetic variants to neuropsychiatric disorders, but their regulatory roles in non-coding regions remain largely unclear. Using the LUHMES neuronal ...

Which genes are required for turning embryonic stem cells into brain cells, and what happens when this process goes wrong? In ...

Parkinson's disease, a common neurodegenerative ailment, affects roughly 1 % of the population aged 60 and up, and the number of cases is anticipated to quadruple by 2040, posing a significant ...

AMSBIO (Oxford, UK) announces an innovative range of induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) kits for researchers requiring a rapid, reproducible, and scalable means of generating specific neural cell ...

An enhanced version of an already popular vitamin could offer a "groundbreaking approach" to better combat the disease.

The study shows that fat tissue, when processed and cultured in a specific way, can self-organize into structures resembling ...

For the first time, a lab-grown brain-computer system has demonstrated that human neurons living and evolving in an artificial system respond to medication by learning, in real time, in a game-like ...