Biomedical engineers have achieved a major breakthrough in organoid research, pushing us closer to a new era of ...

Advance could usher in new era of research for schizophrenia, autism, Alzheimer's, and other neurological diseases ...

Mimicking multiple parts of the brain, this miniature mind could help scientists investigate a variety of neuropsychiatric ...

Scientists at Johns Hopkins have grown a first-of-its-kind organoid mimicking an entire human brain, complete with rudimentary blood vessels and neural activity. This new "multi-region brain organoid" ...

Johns Hopkins scientists have created a small lab-grown human brain model with working brain cells and blood vessels. This breakthrough may help study diseases like autism and schizophrenia, and test ...

A new preclinical study has found exposure to nanoplastics may contribute to the rapid progression of Alzheimer's disease and ...

Machines have come a long way in seeing and understanding images, but they still don’t see quite like humans do. A new ...

As plastic breaks down over time, it degrades into smaller and smaller bits ‒ eventually small enough to slip inside the human body. Most of the plastics the scientists found in brain, kidney ...

While today’s generative AI tools and LLMs are powerful enough to process hundreds of thousands of words simultaneously, the human brain’s language areas process words serially, or one at a time.