Neuroscience

Brain and nervous system research, and the imaging and recording technology that makes it possible.

30 articles

3D Printing of Brain-like Tissues to Improve Drug Tests

Scientists from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science (ACES) have developed a multi-layered structure of primary neural cells that imitates the brain structure. The...

3D bioprinting

First Genetic Link to Depression Found

For the first time in history, scientists have found two genetic variants linked to major depression disorder (MDD). The study, published in Nature, has been...

Neuroscience

Laboratory Mini-brains Help Understanding Idiopatic Autism

Based on studies on lab-grown cerebral organoids, autism could be linked to an excess of inhibitory neurons. Brain models derived from the skin cells of...

Biomedicine

A Window With a View of a Live Brain

A group of researchers from Johns Hopkins University have found a way to follow brain activity in real time. Through a small window in a...

Basic Research

RNA Response to Drugs Visualized in Living Mice Brains

A Japanese research group has observed RNA dynamics in vivo for the first time. The researchers used a new method for high-resolution fluorescence RNA imaging,...

Imaging
MultiSEM 505

World’s Fastest SEM Announced by ZEISS

ZEISS is announcing the launch of the world’s Fastest Scanning scanning electron microscope at the upcoming annual Neuroscience meeting in Washington. The ZEISS MultiSEM 505 has 61 beams...

Biotechnology