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For more than a century, Alzheimer’s disease has been treated as a one‑way slide, something that could perhaps be slowed but never truly undone. A wave of new animal research is now challenging that ...

Research led by the SickKids Research Institute in Toronto and the University of Pennsylvania, has found that immune-related ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Scientists showed that it’s possible to reproduce an entire cerebral cortex inside one of the world’s fastest computers. The model represents the ...

Your ability to notice what matters visually comes from an ancient brain system over 500 million years old.

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