From a tiny sample of tissue no larger than a grain of sand, scientists have come within reach of a goal once thought unattainable: building a complete functional wiring diagram of a portion of the ...

Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date.

The smiley toddler had diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, or DIPG, a cancer that occurs in the part of the brain stem that controls vital functions including breathing, blood pressure and heart rate.

People can speak, sing, shout, or whisper thanks to a series of neurons in the motor region of the cerebral cortex that extend their nerve endings to the brain stem, a crucial highway connecting the ...

He was pronounced dead the next day. Carter’s mother told investigates that medical staff told her that her son experienced a “stroke in his brain stem.” Before his death, Carter had been ...

scientists at MIT have developed a way to convert skin cells directly into brain cells extremely efficiently, without needing to go through the intermediate step of converting them to stem cells ...

STEM challenges are a fantastic way for children to learn in a hands-on, interactive way, hopefully sparking a curiosity and passion for science and technology. My ever growing collection of STEM ...

“They said that they couldn’t take the whole tumour because it’s at the brain stem and if anything was to happen she would die. “When they’d done the surgery, they said they’d do chemotherapy and for ...

Neural stem cells are multipotent adult stem cells present in the adult central nervous system that can self-renew, and give rise to new neurons and supporting cells called glial cells.

The order lists steps to be followed before certifying brain death. Assessment of brain stem reflexes has to be done through a series of tests by a panel of four doctors and the panel has to redo ...