A Startup Is Keeping Human Brain Cells Active After Death. Could It Change Drug Testing?

Plastic particles smaller than a grain of sand have been found lodged in human brain tissue at concentrations that dwarf ...

The brain has emerged as a new frontier in medical technology. Bloomberg Primer explores where the next neurotechnology advances will lead.

A common brain protein may be giving Alzheimer’s disease an unexpected way to spread, carrying toxic Tau proteins from ...

Paradromics CEO Matt Angle said the patient will start testing the device in the coming weeks with the goal of restoring her ability to communicate.

As a neuroscientist, I am not afraid of AI. Source: Randa Marzouk/Unsplash In fact, I would love to see it improve faster. One major obstacle to a significant leap is that AI is developed by engineers ...

Modern medicine has achieved things that once seemed impossible. Surgeons can replace heart valves, transplant organs, and ...

In a bid to better understand, and potentially treat, a host of conditions that affect early cognition, neurodevelopment, and the brain later in life, investigators at Johns Hopkins Medicine and ...

It's common knowledge that our brains—and, specifically, our brain cells—store memories. But a team of scientists has discovered that cells from other parts of the body also perform a memory function, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the big picture of artificial intelligence. It is not possible to understand the long-term future of artificial ...

In the spirit of Minsky, a recent article by the economist Tyler Cowen argued that there was “no ghost in the machine” but ...