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Neuroscience has often treated consciousness as something produced by the brain alone. An emerging body of research expands ...

Comparing the brains of male and female flies may transform our understanding of how genes shape behaviour, including ours.

Duke researchers developed an injectable scaffold that helped stroke-damaged brains grow new blood vessels, support nerve ...

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As the human brain takes shape before birth, a remarkable type of stem cell helps give it many of the features that make it ...

New research points to certain immune cells in our lymph nodes that play a key role in causing the brain damage seen with ...

A very nerdy solution to a very old problem.