When scientists sequenced the DNA of a woman who lived to 117, they were not just cataloging the quirks of an extraordinary ...

University of Colorado Boulder researchers document how the zero-calorie sweetener triggers cellular changes in brain vessels ...

A Nigerian-American physician and pioneer in regenerative medicine, Dr. David Ikudayisi, has said Nigeria can stem the ...

Explore new insights into neurodegenerative therapies as researchers observe learning mechanisms in the living brain.

In one of the rockiest years yet for science, Philadelphia-area researchers still managed to celebrate many wins. Here are five of them.

Your brain is so hungry for glucose that it uses between 20% to 25% of your body’s glucose to keep functioning. That might make you assume more sugar is better, but that’s not ...

A new computational model of the brain based closely on its biology and physiology has not only learned a simple visual ...

A biologically grounded computational model built to mimic real neural circuits, not trained on animal data, learned a visual categorization task just as actual lab animals do, matching their accuracy ...

A new ‘biomimetic’ model of brain circuits and function at multiple scales produced naturalistic dynamics and learning, and ...

About ten years ago, scientists began exploring an unconventional idea for studying the brain: using bioluminescent light to ...

A novel electrode platform detects dopamine from single living brain organoids in real time, enabling non-destructive ...

Macaques are often studied because their brains share many similarities with human brains. However, this study revealed an ...