“The front is where the nervous system crystallizes because that’s the bit of the animal that’s meeting the environment head on,” Shimeld said. The first brain-like mass of neurons likely evolved at ...

When it comes to understanding the human brain, there are so many analogies with the animal world. Over the past decade, we’ve learned about the chimp brain (the part of the brain that acts ...

In a study published today (October 13) in iScience, researchers found a way to harness photosynthesis to supply neurons with oxygen: they injected either cyanobacteria or green algae into Xenopus ...

“There is no other genetically modified animal model that ... Medicine in Tokyo and head of the Laboratory for Marmoset Neural Architecture at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science (CBS) in Wako ...

Researchers at UC San Francisco have enabled a man who is paralyzed to control a robotic arm through a device that relays signals from his brain to a computer.