Researchers say the innovation, known as SmartEM, will speed scanning sevenfold and open the field of connectomics to a ...

For more than a century, scientists have wondered why physical structures like blood vessels, neurons, tree branches, and ...

A new study reveals how biological branching networks use surface geometry to shape blood vessels, brains, and plants.

The new analysis study showed the delay may stem from genetic mutations that are present when a child is born – but activate ...

For more than a century, brain imaging has been a story of trade-offs: sharp pictures but slow timing, or fast signals with ...

The human brain is often compared to a computer, but the latest wave of research shows it is closer to a self-building city, ...

Kanazawa University, have captured real-time images showing how a key brain enzyme organizes itself to help memory formation.

Researchers in Japan built a miniature human brain circuit using fused stem-cell–derived organoids, allowing them to watch ...

It takes just a few milliseconds: A vesicle, only a few nanometers in size and filled with neurotransmitters, approaches a cell membrane, fuses with it, and releases its chemical messengers into the ...

Most neurons receive thousands of synaptic inputs onto widely spread dendrites. Because of dendritic filtering, distant synapses should have less efficacy than proximal ones. To investigate this, we ...