Researchers have crossed a threshold that once belonged squarely to science fiction: they have built working models of brains ...

Even consciousness could reveal its secrets someday with this realistic simulation, researchers hope. It will not only ...

Humans possess a remarkable balance between stability and flexibility, enabling them to quickly establish new plans and ...

Organoids are bits of neural tissue that model human brain development. Their use in science makes some uneasy, in part because the brain is so closely tied to our sense of self.

Organoids have revolutionized science and medicine, providing platforms for disease modeling, drug testing, and understanding developmental processes. While not exact replicas of human organs, they ...

The human brain is a fascinating and complex organ that supports numerous sophisticated behaviors and abilities that are ...

Johns Hopkins University researchers have grown a novel whole-brain organoid, complete with neural tissues and rudimentary blood vessels—an advance that could usher in a new era of research into ...

Recently, Nvidia founder Jensen Huang, whose company builds the chips powering today’s most advanced artificial intelligence systems, remarked: “The thing that’s really, really quite amazing is the ...

From large language models to whole brain emulation, two rival visions are shaping the next era of artificial intelligence.

In 1906, biologists Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramón y Cajal shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries that illuminated the physical structures of the human brain. Working ...

Researchers have used a new human reference genome, which includes many duplicated and repeat sequences left out of the original human genome draft, to identify genes that make the human brain ...