Melbourne researchers have uncovered a critical signaling pathway that controls the timing of brain development, shedding new ...

Models of how the brain changes over time could help researchers to understand how diseases affect the organ later in life.

A human-specific gene influences brain immune cell development. These cells, called microglia, mature much slower than in ...

Tiny human brain organoids survived for years outside the body, continued to mature, and even skipped ahead through stages of ...

A scientific team has shown that, under the right circumstances, 3D cell culture models of human brain tissue, known as organoids, can express features of later-stage brain development. This ...

The human brain is often described as one of the most complex structures in biology, and much of its power comes from how ...

A lot of brain development happens early in life, but researchers don't have a strong understanding of how a baby's brain develops while they're awake. "It's such a rapid window of change for the ...

Yale School of Medicine (YSM) has been awarded a grant of nearly $25 million by the Aligning Research to Impact Autism (ARIA) ...

When a baby enters the world, their brain contains billions of neurons awaiting connection. The first 1,000 days of life, from conception to age two, represent a critical period where over 85% of ...

Neurodevelopment involves the brain's formation of systems responsible for learning, memory, social skills, and overall function. Critical neurodevelopmental processes such as neurogenesis, synaptic ...

One aspect of this neuroplasticity is the increased “cross talk” that the teen brain experiences between its different regions. For instance, as the prefrontal cortex (the brain region that supports ...

Researchers kept human brain organoids developing for over five years, revealing prolonged maturation that mirrors human ...