A new high resolution model of the CA1 region of the human hippocampus has been developed by the Institute of Biophysics of the Italian National Research Council (CNR-IBF) and University of Modena e ...

With its focus on marmosets, Japan’s national brain initiative has been generating invaluable data for unlocking the mysteries of our minds. At the heart of Japan’s national brain initiative, the ...

In 2009, neuroscientist Henry Markram gave an ambitious TED talk. “Our mission is to build a detailed, realistic computer model of the human brain,” he said, naming three reasons for this unmatched ...

It took 10 years, around 500 scientists and some €600 million, and now the Human Brain Project — one of the biggest research endeavours ever funded by the European Union — is coming to an end. Its ...

The 10-year funding period for the Human Brain Project (HBP) may have come to an end, but what has been achieved in this time will continue to benefit the field. Over the last 10 years, 155 ...

March 6, 2023 — The European Innovation Council (EIC) has recently announced that it will award a Transition grant to SpiNNcloud Systems GmbH, a deep-tech startup based in Saxony, Germany. The team ...

A research group has developed a simple and effective artificial blood-brain barrier model that can be used to determine how well antibody-based therapies can enter the brain. Today animal ...

Cerebral aneurysms are more common in women than in men, and women tend to experience worse outcomes. Our lab investigates sex differences in cerebral aneurysms, focusing on genomic variations. We are ...

A 3D model accurately mimicking the Blood-Brain Barrier (BBB) in a laboratory environment has been successfully developed by research teams led by Professor Jinah Jang from the Departments of ...

Research on human brain organoids (HBOs) is directly challenging how biobanks and biomedical institutes recruit volunteers.