The gut-brain axis refers to the complex communication network linking the digestive system with the central nervous system.

As the human brain takes shape before birth, a remarkable type of stem cell helps give it many of the features that make it ...

Summer is winding down and school is back. And all of that has us thinking about this idea that something happens in the ...

Gut microbes may be linked to brain chemistry, anxiety, depression, and sleep through several communication pathways in ...

UCLA researchers have discovered two powerful influences that help guide how the human brain forms before birth. Radial glia, ...

Models of how the brain changes over time could help researchers to understand how diseases affect the organ later in life.

The human brain has upward of 86 billion neurons, connected by some 100 trillion synapses ...

Harvard neuroscientists have kept human brain organoids alive for over five years. These organoids matured and followed ...

A human-specific gene influences brain immune cell development. These cells, called microglia, mature much slower than in ...

The human brain contains billions of neurons, specialized nerve cells that receive, transmit and process information through ...

Tiny human brain organoids survived for years outside the body, continued to mature, and even skipped ahead through stages of ...