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Researchers in Japan built a miniature human brain circuit using fused stem-cell–derived organoids, allowing them to watch ...

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“This is a paradigm shift,” says Donn Van Deren, PhD, postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, who ...

This comprehensive review synthesizes a decade of human and animal research to explain how the gut and brain communicate ...

An estimated 86 billion neurons in the average human brain govern our body’s functions and conjure — somehow — the human mind. C. elegans has 302 neurons in one sex and a few more in the other.

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In a development straight out of science fiction, Australian startup Cortical Labs has released what it calls the world’s first code-deployable biological computer. The CL1, which debuted in March, ...