A flagship project which launched a range of prototype computer platforms to support brain research - including one based at The University of Manchester - has just received an €89 million boost from ...

A new 'Glass Brain' 3D visualisation technique has found a way to let users explore a realtime image of their brain activity. The project - a collaboration between the Neuroscape Lab at the University ...

The EU-funded Human Brain Project (HBP) comes to an end in September and celebrates its successful conclusion today with a scientific symposium at Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ). The HBP was one of ...

The Human Brain Project (HBP) has announced the start of its final phase as an EU-funded FET Flagship. The European Commission has signed a grant agreement to fund the HBP with 150 million Euros from ...

A new 3D human brain tissue platform developed by MIT researchers is the first to integrate all major brain cell types, including neurons, glial cells and the vasculature into a single culture. Grown ...

The brain is the most complicated organ in the human body. With billions of cells that create trillions of connections to allow an individual to move, think, and remember, many of its innerworkings ...

Understanding how organs form and how their cells behave is essential to finding the causes and treatment for developmental disorders, as well as understanding certain diseases. However, studying most ...

If you want to learn how something works it helps to take it apart and put it back together again. For 10 years, neuroscientists have used this strategy on the brain of a rat to learn more about its ...

A billion dollar project claims it will recreate the most complex organ in the human body in just 10 years. But detractors say it is impossible. Who is right? For years, Henry Markram has claimed that ...

President Obama: "There's this enormous mystery waiting to be unlocked" US President Barack Obama has unveiled a new initiative to map the brain. Speaking at the White House, he announced an initial ...