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

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 ...

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

Scientists found that a single gene controls striking corn snake patterns like stripes and blotches. While essential for ...

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 ...

Sandra Siegert and her research group at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) focus on these microglia and their interplay with neurons during embryonic development. In their latest ...

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?

"Our study shows how different cell types arise from stem cells in the embryo and how they are organized to create important structures in the brain ... an early stage of development.

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