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The Allen Institute is launching a $400 million initiative, the Brain Health Accelerator, to develop gene therapies for ...

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In a new study, UC Berkeley researchers are investigating whether psilocybin can support healthy aging by boosting plasticity ...

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Human brains donated after death are being kept biologically active in a Connecticut lab, where scientists are using them to ...

Neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge have identified five "major epochs" of brain structure over the course of a human life, as our brains rewire to support different ways of thinking while ...

Neuromorphic computers modeled after the human brain can now solve the complex equations behind physics simulations — something once thought possible only with energy-hungry supercomputers. The ...

Scientists are using postmortem human brains to test new drugs. Discover how this breakthrough is changing medicine and ...

Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology, which recognizes novel technologies that have improved human health. The prize was established by the visionary health care executive for whom it is named, and ...

Brain-computer interfaces (BCI) sound like science fiction to most people. But this technology is getting real, quickly.