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3D Stem-Cell miBrains Model Complex Neurovascular Pathology in Human Tissue

Mount Sinai researchers have identified how APOE4, the strongest genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease, damages the brain's blood vessels and promotes the buildup of abnormal proteins linked to neurodegenerative disease.

25 Sep 2026

Type I Interferon Pathway Identified as Crucial Innate Viral Defense

Tick populations are expanding across the U.S., driving an increase in tick-borne diseases. Among them is Powassan virus, a rare but increasingly reported infection that can cause severe brain inflammation and lasting neurological complications.

25 Sep 2026

Ultra-High-Resolution 3D Microscopy Captures Distinct Presynaptic Protein Organization States

A new study led by researchers at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health examines how different versions of the same protein can alter neuronal communication.

25 Sep 2026

How Feedback Mechanisms Control Neural Chaos for Stable Visual Processing

What we see appears stable, even though neuronal activity is full of irregular fluctuations. A team led by Dr Mehdi Borjkhani from ICTER has shown, using a minimal model of the primary visual cortex, that two natural feedback mechanisms can constrain chaos and reduce variability in neural activity by up to 93 percent.

23 Sep 2026

Researchers Identify Peptide That Counters Key Processes of Neurodegenerative Disorders

Alzheimer's disease and related neurodegenerative disorders are among medicine's most challenging conditions, progressively impairing memory, movement and independence. Now, researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine have identified a naturally occurring peptide - a small protein fragment called catestatin (CST) - that may help counter several key processes driving neurodegeneration.

23 Sep 2026

What Drives Pregnancy Cravings? Researchers Find a Clue in the Brain

What causes intense food cravings during pregnancy? Scientists at LSU’s Pennington Biomedical Research Center, working alongside collaborators, have pinpointed a neural mechanism that may explain how pregnancy influences the desire to pursue certain highly appealing foods.

22 Sep 2026

Breakthrough Study Explains Developmental Origins of the Human Brain

For centuries, scientists have thought of the brain as a single, unified organ. But new research led by Stanford Medicine reveals that what we call the brain is two distinct organs that evolved independently over hundreds of millions of years.

21 Sep 2026

Novel Base-Editing Approach Shows Promise for Inherited Motor Neuron Disorders

A team of researchers led by Professor Haruhisa Inoue (Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University) and Professor Yuishin Izumi (Tokushima University) demonstrated that adenine base editing can correct a disease-causing genetic mutation and alleviate neurodegeneration in hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy with proximal dominant involvement (HMSN-P), providing proof of concept for a precision gene therapy for inherited motor neuron diseases.

21 Sep 2026

Study Maps Precise Anatomical Circuits Within the Brainstem Locus Coeruleus

Deep in the brainstem sits a small but important cluster of neurons known as the locus coeruleus (LC), Latin for "blue place."

21 Sep 2026

Study Links Maternal Infections to Fetal Brain Development

Research shows maternal infections affect fetal brain development, with immune responses linked to autism spectrum disorder and other neurodevelopmental issues.

18 Sep 2026

Noninvasive Imaging Framework Enhances Predictions of Higher-Order Human Brain Function

Researchers from the Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute (Stevens INI) at the Keck School of Medicine of USC have developed a new, noninvasive way to examine how blood flow and cellular organization align across the layers of the living human brain.

17 Sep 2026

Scientists Grow Human Brain Organoids in Cortex-Depleted Mice

Stanford Medicine scientists have chalked up a major advance in growing human brain cells outside of the human brain - and outside of laboratory glassware.

17 Sep 2026

Study Provides Novel Structural Model for CaMKIIα Synaptic Accumulation

Researchers at the Nano Life Science Institute (WPI-NanoLSI) at Kanazawa University, Kyoto University, SOKENDAI, and the National Institute for Physiological Sciences have revealed how CaMKIIα-a key brain protein involved in learning and memory-organizes itself into chain-like structures.

17 Sep 2026

Acorn Worm Larva Undergoes Extensive Cellular Reprogramming During Metamorphosis

A squishy worm originating as a floating, head-like form within the Pacific Ocean is reshaping scientific understanding regarding metamorphosis at the cellular scale.

14 Sep 2026

Researchers Locate Cortical Cells That Actively Trigger Brain Sleep

What makes the brain fall asleep? For nearly a century, scientists have looked to structures deep within the brain for the answer.

12 Sep 2026

Novel Microscopy Method Captures Live Body-Wide Organismal Cellular Signaling

We can't hear it, but the different parts of our body are in constant conversation, communicating to keep the entire system running efficiently.

10 Sep 2026

Researchers Propose Roadmap for Brain-Wide Lifetime Electrophysiology in Mammalian Models

Understanding the brain requires tools that can follow neural activity across many scales: from millisecond electrical spikes in individual neurons to brain-wide circuit dynamics that change over months, years, and even a lifetime.

10 Sep 2026

Scientists Discover How Elusive Brain Stem Cells Make Decisions

As the human brain takes shape before birth, a remarkable type of stem cell helps give it many of the features that make it distinctly human.

7 Sep 2026

New Understanding of Brain Circuitry Genes Opens Door for Targeted OCD Therapies

A Rutgers-led international team co-authored a study, which was published in Nature Neuroscience, revealing 36 genes significantly increasing the risk for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and chronic tic disorders. This research offers the most comprehensive biological insight into the development of these conditions and potential future treatments.

4 Sep 2026

Research Sheds Light on Molecular Origins of Pediatric Brain Cancers

Melbourne researchers have uncovered a critical signaling pathway that controls the timing of brain development, shedding new light on how neurodevelopmental disorders may develop.

3 Sep 2026