True suffering is tied to conscious experience, which only emerges when the higher brain becomes functionally connected.” ...

Patients with spastic paraplegia type 15 develop movement disorders during adolescence that may ultimately require the use of ...

Scientists have the technology to grow humans in Petri dishes, but they say there are better uses for it: to combat aging.

Patients with spastic paraplegia type 15 develop movement disorders during adolescence that may ultimately require the use of a wheelchair. In the early stages of this rare hereditary disease the ...

A joint study conducted by the University of Bonn and the DZNE has confirmed early-stage brain inflammation in mice.

A growing understanding of how “reproductive” hormones sculpt the brain could transform the management of neurological ...

Scientists have identified a previously unknown type of neural stem cell (pNSC) that exists outside the brain and spinal cord ...

Doctors might be able to predict a newborn's long-term health outlook, by analyzing their umbilical cord blood, a new study ...

The way DNA folds inside the nucleus of brain cells may hold the key to understanding a devastating form of brain cancer called glioblastoma, suggests a new preclinical study. The findings offer a new ...

As governments and industry move to ban the culling of male chicks, a central question continues to shape public policy, research funding and ethical debates: When can a chick embryo feel pain?