A new study finds rare neural stem cells in the adult human hippocampus, suggesting some brains can generate new neurons into ...

Now, researchers at Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet say they’ve found the clearest answer yet. They report the discovery of ...

The cerebrum, especially the cerebral cortex, has long been thought to be the important part of our brain. However, the cerbrum contains less than 20 percent of the neurons in our brain. Eighty ...

Fred Hutch researchers have created a gene-expression map of glial cells of the tiny worm, C. elegans, adding the missing ...

Neural stem cells articles from across Nature Portfolio Neural stem cells are multipotent adult stem cells present in the adult central nervous system that can self-renew, and give rise to new ...