New research shows that adults' brains still carry stem cells that grow, divide, and eventually become new mature neurons.

Scientists have found evidence of new brain cells sprouting in adults - a process that many thought only occurred in children ...

A decade after her fatal prognosis, Grace Wethor is “miraculously” living with brain cancer —and has become an author, ...

Resting brain stem cells hardly differ from normal astrocytes, which support the nerve cells in the brain. How can almost identical cells perform such different functions? The key lies in the ...

They isolated ordinary astrocytes and brain stem cells from the ventricular-subventricular zone (vSVZ), a region of adult mice brains with young neurons.

Nicola went to see a doctor and was told she needed an MRI, which she thought was an “overreaction” but it revealed meningioma — a tumor in a rare and dangerous location near her brain stem ...

The brain stem connects to your spinal cord and sits just underneath the cerebrum. The largest part of the brain is the cerebrum, which consists of four lobes, each with a distinct function.

Studer's team, for example, began looking at stem cells to treat brain diseases more than 25 years ago. "For us, it's quite an exciting time," he says, "finally seeing some of the fruit of that work." ...