Scientists have discovered that the adolescent brain does more than prune old connections. During the teen years, it actively ...

Some parts of our bodies bounce back from injury in fairly short order. The outer protective layer of the eye—called the ...

Pea-size clusters of human cells called brain organoids inspire both hope and fear. Experts are debating how scientists can responsibly use these bits of gray matter.

Brain development does not end at 25 but continues into the early 30s as neural networks become more efficient and ...

The Bell Jar project team at UC Santa Cruz: from left to right are postdoc Richard Dickson, graduate student Matthew Jacobs, Alec Soronow, and Euiseok Kim. (Photo by Carolyn Lagatutta) UC Santa Cruz ...

The parts of the brain that are needed to remember words, and how these are affected by a common form of epilepsy, have been identified by a team of neurologists and neurosurgeons at UCL. The new ...