Some parts of the body can recover from injury fairly rapidly. The cornea, for example, can heal from minor scratches within a single day. The human brain, however, is not one of these fast-healing ...

Every day, hundreds of thousands of people undergo general anesthesia, trusting they'll drift into unconsciousness and wake ...

Researchers have pinpointed several of the genes that make brain regeneration possible in one type of flatworm.

As the human brain takes shape before birth, a remarkable type of stem cell helps give it many of the features that make it distinctly human. These cells, called radial glia, make billions of ...