What makes the human brain distinctive? A new study published July 21 in Cell identifies two genes linked to human brain ...

A scientific team supported in part by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has developed a new, ultra-high-resolution ...

NIH-supported scientists have developed the Connectome 2.0 MRI scanner, a breakthrough tool that images living human brains ...

Until today, skin, brain, and all tissues of the human body were difficult to observe in detail with an optical microscope, ...

The breakthrough could explain how adult brain cells take advantage of developmental processes to instigate the explosive growth seen in deadly brain cancers like glioblastoma. The researchers made ...

The team, also led by co-first author Cheng Wang, PhD, and co-corresponding author Jingjing Li, PhD, wagered that valuable new insights could be made by studying the human brain itself. They ...