Magnesium May Not Reach Your Brain, Despite Supplement Label Promises
Most of us probably don’t think about how much magnesium we’re consuming, but our bodies couldn’t function without…
Memory stays strong in old age when this brain enzyme is active
Screening of mouse hippocampus cells (pictured) identified an enzyme whose production rose with age. Credit: Talley Lambert/Science Photo…
Palantir CEO says only trade workers or those with neurodivergence will succeed in the AI era
From Gen Z to baby boomers, workers across industries are on the hunt for ways to future-proof their…
Could Alzheimer’s disease be treated by surgery? Scientists want to find out.
The videos are astonishing. In one scene, a senior Chinese woman appears lost in the wilderness of dementia,…
Precision Neuroscience Unveils a New Map of the Human Nervous System
Precision Neuroscience Corporation (Precision) today announced a new manuscript describing a growing atlas of the human central nervous…
Can your brain grow new neurons? How researchers are solving a century-old puzzle
For a long time, it was a truism in science that the human brain is born with all…
Out-of-Body Experiment: Researchers Asked People to See Remotely Into Another Room. Things Got Weird
Credit: Pexels Look with your mind’s eye and you may start visualizing different environments and perspectives. But most…
One family’s struggle with early dementia may lead us to a cure
Do the crossword every day. Exercise 150 minutes per week. Follow the Mediterranean diet. While for most people…
Landmark map of human brain’s gene activity holds clues to Alzheimer’s disease and more
A detailed brain map describes gene activity in neurons (artist’s illustration) as well as immune and vascular cells…
How to make a brain: new experiments challenge existing picture
Blood vessels (artificially coloured) snake through a a mouse’s brain.Credit: Simon Walker-Samuel, UCL CABI/Science Photo Library For decades,…
Human brain cells transplanted into mice in ‘most extensive’ integration ever
Human brain tissue transplanted into mice that lack a key part of their brains can grow to occupy…
Developmental xenocortication using human-derived organoids in mice
Genetically encoded cortical depletion Emx1-cre (JAX, B6.129S2-Emx1tm1(cre)Krj/J), Esco2fl/fl (JAX, B6N.129S-Esco2tm1.1Ge/J) and C57BL SCID (JAX, B6.Cg-Prkdcscid/SzJ) mice were used…