Researchers at the Baylor College of Medicine and the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at the Texas Children’s Hospital have uncovered a new cell type in the human brain. The team ...

The idea that the nervous system passes messages from one nerve cell to another only through synapses — the points where the cells link up end to end — is changing. Two studies show how messages can ...

Engineers at Northwestern University have taken a striking leap toward merging machines with the human brain by printing ...

Printed artificial neurons generate realistic brain-like signals that activate living neurons. Device uses flexible, low-cost ...

Scientists have created artificial neurons that can communicate directly with real brain cells, opening the door to new ...

Northwestern University researchers have taken a step toward bridging electronics and the human brain ...

Most people wouldn’t give Geobacter sulfurreducens a second look. The bacteria was first discovered in a ditch in rural Oklahoma. But the lowly microbe has a superpower. It grows protein nanotubes ...

How does the gut talk to the brain? A new study identifies polysaccharides and peptidoglycans as the key bacterial signals ...

Researchers mapped the proteome of individual sensory neurons and identified B3GNT2 as a key enzyme driving pain ...