At first glance, it looks like the start of a human pregnancy: A ball-shaped embryo presses gently into the receptive lining ...

Scientists rely on cytokines, growth factors, and other agents to direct and create different types of organoid models.

For decades, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder have been diagnosed from the outside in, through behavior, mood, and memory ...

Brain organoids can be a good step forward, assuming they are grown from induced human pluripotent stem cells. That allows us to sidestep ethical concerns about the use of human embryos, thereby ...

Scientists and regulators have long acknowledged the weaknesses in traditional methods used to identify drugs that may harm the central nervous system. One | Neuroscience ...

Though an estimated 60 million people around the world have atrial fibrillation, or A-fib, a type of irregular and often fast ...

An organoid is a simplified and smaller version of an organ produced in vitro. Organoids resemble the cellular architecture and composition of the original tissue and demonstrate functional ...

In a laboratory at Johns Hopkins University, there’s a small orb the size of a pinprick. But this speck of matter contains multitudes. Within it, there are neurons firing across synapses and electric ...