Researchers from Ruhr University Bochum have partnered with colleagues in Göttingen, Berlin, Paris and Essen to develop new optogenetic tools that can selectively inhibit cellular activity through ...
A virus carried by more than 60 percent of people worldwide may alter the brain's immune system in ways that could help ...
The U.S. government has touted organoids as an alternative to animals for studying the brain. Scientists are still working to ...
Learn more about eLife assessments The distribution of synaptic and extra-synaptic AMPA receptors (AMPARs) on neuronal plasma membranes is correlated with learning and memory. Although AMPAR ...
Researchers find evidence that suggests neural activity can guide the way the brain adapts to different sensory experiences ...
For decades, neuroscientists have wrestled with one of the most puzzling contrasts in biology: why neurons in the central ...
Scientists have uncovered an unexpected culprit behind sleep loss in Alzheimer’s disease: overactive immune cells in the ...
Research into deciphering what is happening inside an AI is called "interpretability." As of the fall of 2026, differences in ...
Goodfire researcher Nick Cammarata argues nearly 90% of neurons in models like Qwen3-32B have one clear role, up from about 2 ...
Scientists discovered that human brain organoids, which are small neural clusters derived from stem cells, could identify the ...
The seemingly chaotic neurons consistently operate in a remarkably precise, well-organized manner—this fundamental biological ...