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Maiken Nedergaard's power of disruption Mar 28, 2024

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The award-winning researcher's discoveries have changed the way we think about the brain; that's exactly what her critics dislike.

Expanding 'little brain' may have powered dinosaur flight Mar 25, 2024

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The cerebellum swelled in size before flight evolved among modern birds' dinosaur ancestors, according to a new comparison of fossilized skulls and living birds.

How long-read sequencing will transform neuroscience Mar 18, 2024

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New technology that delivers much more than a simple DNA sequence could have a major impact on brain research, enabling researchers to study transcript diversity, imprinting and more.

Incentivizing data-sharing in neuroscience: How about a little customer service? Mar 11, 2024

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To make data truly reusable, we need to invest in data curators, who help people enter the information into repositories.

'Into the wild': Moving studies of memory and learning out of the lab Mar 04, 2024

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People with electrodes embedded deep in their brain are collaborating with a growing posse of plucky researchers to uncover the mysteries of real-world recall.

Making cancer nervous Feb 26, 2024

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Nerve cells in the brain and throughout the body can turbocharge tumor growth - a finding that not only expands conventional ideas about the nervous system but points to novel therapeutic targets for a range of malignancies.

Vast diversity of human brain cell types revealed in trove of new datasets Oct 31, 2023

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The collection offers a glimpse into differences in cell composition - across people and brain regions - that may shape neural function.

Journal club: Why do some children lose their autism diagnosis? Oct 26, 2023

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More than one-third of a cohort of autistic toddlers no longer meet criteria for the condition at school age, according to a new study, but the findings may not generalize because the cohort is predominantly white and affluent.

Uncertainty and excitement surround one company's cell therapy for epilepsy Oct 24, 2023

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After 10 years of work, Neurona may have the data to quiet its skeptics. But its ongoing clinical trial will be the ultimate test.

Mutations in multipurpose gene deal dendrites a double whammy Oct 17, 2023

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The mutations disrupt protein translation as well as the cell's skeleton, according to a new study.

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