Pea-size clusters of human cells called brain organoids inspire both hope and fear. Experts are debating how scientists can ...

Yale researchers have kept ‘hundreds’ of pig brains alive for up to 36 hours after the animals were decapitated – in an experiment which raised the possibility of human immortality. The Yale team use ...

Researchers have successfully carried out the first 'brain to brain' conversation online - with participants who were 5,000 miles apart. The team transmitted signals over the internet directly from ...

Developers have used a toy robot to show off the revolutionary product CHINA has created a robot with a bizarre lab-grown human brain. Dubbed an “organoid”- the wacky Frankenstein invention is the ...

Scientists have inserted a human gene in the brains of monkeys to make them larger and more wrinkled in disconcerting lab experiments. Experts found the insertion of the gene, called ARHGAP11B, ...

Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG), Central Institute for Experimental Animals and Keio University researchers injected the gene ARHGAP11B - the code responsible for ...

BRAIN cells living in a dish can learn to play the classic video game Pong, Australian scientists have shown. The bizarre experiment demonstrates the “intelligent and sentient behaviour” of our white ...

Two Nobel laureates among 400 scientists who sign letter rejecting claims that use of primates is no longer medically useful More than 400 scientists including two Nobel laureates have signed a letter ...

But donors are letting researchers at the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle keep chunks of their brains for experiments. The Frankenstein-esque process allows experts to study the cells ...

CHINA has created a robot with a bizarre lab-grown human brain. Dubbed an “organoid”- the wacky Frankenstein invention is the latest attempt at creating a hybrid machine that can independently perform ...