Two independent research teams have successfully regenerated mouse brain circuits in mice using neurons grown from rat stem cells. Both studies, using interspecies blastocyst complementation to study ...

However, in the mini-brains linked to autism, the researchers saw an overproduction of excitatory neurons. This imbalance may ...

Fluorescent images illustrating cell types in brain organoids. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 24 Jan issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by A.E. Trevino at Stanford ...

The thalamus serves as a central hub for relaying sensory and motor information, and its development is governed by a tightly regulated interplay of signalling pathways and gene regulatory networks.