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The world’s most powerful supercomputers can now run simulations of billions of neurons, and researchers hope such models ...

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

A pioneering study provides new evidence that gut microbes vary across primate species and can shape physiology in ways ...

New research shows gut bacteria can directly influence how the brain develops and functions. When scientists transferred ...

A new study from Northwestern University is reshaping how scientists think about brain evolution. The research suggests that ...

What unique processes conspire to create a healthy, functional human brain? How can we be so genetically similar to, say, chimpanzees, and yet be light-years more sophisticated cognitively and ...

Researchers uncover evidence that the gut microbiome and brain connection can influence brain gene expression and neural ...

Anthony Leonardo is a neuroscientist at Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s research facility who has created an environment to track dragonflies’ neuron transmissions. This research will enable him to ...

A specialized model used by researchers is becoming a valuable tool for studying human brain development, diseases and potential treatments, according to a team of scientists at Rutgers University-New ...

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

In a July 2018 MIT News article, “ Charting the Cerebellum, ” first author Xavier Guell of MIT's McGovern Institute of Brain Research, describes his team’s state-of-the-art mapping of motor and ...