We’re a long way from reviving a frozen human, but new research yields insight.

Scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and Sanford Burnham Prebys explore genetic factors in separate papers ...

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by progressive memory loss, cognitive decline, and behavioral changes. The deficits linked to AD are known to result from the ...

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The brain may lose control over which genes get expressed as it ages.

The Salk Institute in La Jolla has dropped a massive, cell-by-cell atlas of the aging mouse brain that scientists say could ...

A team of researchers froze mouse brain tissue for a week. After warming it up again, they found that the brain tissue ...

Researchers have developed a cutting-edge technique that uses RNA “barcodes” to map how neurons connect, capturing thousands ...

By tagging neurons with molecular “barcodes,” researchers mapped connections among thousands of neurons in the mouse brain ...

While such advances bring with them a breadth of knowledge, the immense complexity of the datasets makes it challenging for scientists to analyze them using current computational methods. Now, ...