The team from the University of Edinburgh used the healthy brain tissue from living NHS patients and exposed it to a protein ...

For the first time, a team of researchers have used living human brain tissue to see how dementia unfolds in the brain cells.

Scientists using living human brain tissue have shown for the first time how a toxic form of a protein linked to Alzheimer's ...

A massive, multi-year project led by over 150 scientists has produced the most detailed map yet of how visual information ...

A recent study revealed that the average human brain may contain the equivalent of ... noted that Dr. Campden's team is continuing its research and "now studying tissue from cross-sections of a single ...

Although this research was conducted in mice, the findings build on previous human research. Data from the Rush Memory and Aging Project showed that higher concentrations of menaquinone-4 (the ...

One Out of Three Former NFL Players Think They Have CTE, the Traumatic Brain Disease Linked to Murders and Suicides ...

Next, scientists at the Allen Institute analyzed that small piece of brain tissue, using a special tool to shave it into more than 25,000 layers, each far thinner than a human hair. With electron ...

(Allen Institute Photo) Researchers say they’ve accomplished a feat that was said to be impossible 46 years ago: mapping the cells in a cubic millimeter of brain tissue and tracing their activity.

and even what it means to be human. “Our behaviours ultimately arise from activity in the brain, and brain tissue shares very similar properties in all mammals,” says team member Forrest ...

an achievement that could offer insight into how the human brain works. They worked out the cerebral architecture in a tissue sample the size of a grain of sand bearing more than 200,000 cells ...