Resting brain stem cells hardly differ from normal astrocytes, which support the nerve cells in the brain. How can almost identical cells perform such different functions? The key lies in the ...

A preprint study by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), titled 'The Brain with ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt When Using an AI Assistant for an Essay-Writing Task, ...

The lab of Filippo Veglia, Ph.D., at The Wistar Institute has discovered a previously unknown mechanism for how aggressive brain cancers reprogram immune system cells from fighting cancer to enabling ...

Neurons that fire together really do wire together, says a new study in Science, suggesting that the three-pound computer in our heads may be more malleable than we think. In recent work, ...