Using an innovative new method, a University of Saskatchewan (USask) researcher is building tiny pseudo-organs from stem cells to help diagnose and treat Alzheimer's. When Dr. Tyler Wenzel (PhD) first ...

Tiny lab-grown “mini brains” are no longer just a futuristic curiosity. By capturing the electrical chatter of neurons in a ...

Tiny lab-grown brains are offering an unprecedented look at how schizophrenia and bipolar disorder disrupt neural activity.

Lewy body dementia is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that shares traits with both Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases but can be more difficult to diagnose. Symptoms can include ...

Galway-based scientists have discovered improvements in growing "mini brains" in laboratories, which could benefit studies into strokes, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

A new study in the lab of Jason Stein, Ph.D., modeled brain development in a dish to identify cells and genes that influence ...

Researchers at the University of Bergen have used advanced stem cell technology to develop mini-brains, also called brain organoids, that can mimic disease processes caused by mitochondrial failure.

Scientists are building experimental computers from living human brain cells and testing how they learn and adapt.

Studying a new type of pinhead-size, lab-grown brain made with technology first suggested by three high school students, Johns Hopkins researchers have confirmed a key way in which Zika virus causes ...

Mini-brains' grown in the lab allow scientists to study brain wiring without interfering with brains in living people, and ...

SASKATOON--Using an innovative new method, a University of Saskatchewan (USask) researcher is building tiny pseudo-organs from stem cells to help diagnose and treat Alzheimer’s. When Dr. Tyler Wenzel ...

Researchers have grown pea-sized brains in the lab that are offering an unprecedented look at how neurons behave differently ...