During brain development, neurons can regulate their movement until they reach their final destination thanks to a "molecular switch" involving the protein Teneurin 4 (Ten4).

Researchers in Spain have found that chaperone-mediated autophagy, a selective protein cleanup process, is markedly reduced in the motor neurons of ALS patients. The deficiency may contribute to toxic ...

Credit: Mark Hersam/Northwestern University Printed artificial neurons can now send lifelike signals that activate real brain ...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease that causes the progressive loss of motor neurons, which ...

The odor receptors in the nose are not distributed at random but organized in a precise spatial pattern, two new studies ...

Advances in developmental neuroscience have fundamentally reshaped thinking about neural repair. Mechanisms that govern neuronal fate specification, brain ...

Researchers discover that the protein Adgrl2 uses alternative splicing to switch between building brain synapses and sealing ...

Some scientists are wondering if we could mimic the energy-efficient processes of the human brain to improve AI systems. A ...

Sam Altman unveils OpenAI’s guiding principles, but recent controversies test whether the company can deliver on its promises ...

The thermosensory neuron AFD unexpectedly modulates locomotion based on tactile experience through molecular and circuit mechanisms distinct from those underlying thermosensation.

Neuron networks in the brains hippocampus, the memory centre, are dense with connections that appear random, but as animals ...