The brain is two separate organs that work together, rather than a single unified unit, scientists at Stanford University ...
The hundreds-of-millions-of-years-old revelation could give scientists a new way to study ALS and other conditions affecting ...
Hindbrain neurons control breathing and swallowing, and a Stanford lab grew them after finding a second starter cell in the ...
We talk about the brain and mind-body connection all the time at mindbodygreen, but new research is calling almost everything we know into question. In a newly published study, Stanford researchers ...
Resting brain stem cells hardly differ from normal astrocytes, which support the nerve cells in the brain. How can almost identical cells perform such different functions? The key lies in the ...
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 ...
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. These cells, called radial glia, make billions of ...
Just a few weeks after conception, stem cells are already orchestrating the future structure of the human brain. A new Yale-led study shows that, early in development, molecular "traffic cops" ...