With the help of directed evolution, scientists inch closer to developing viral vectors that can cross the human blood-brain barrier to deliver gene therapy.

This year’s Breakthrough Prizes honor advances in CAR T cancer therapies, cystic fibrosis, and Parkinson’s disease.

This year, neuroscience researchers made important discoveries related to how neurodegeneration attacks the human brain, hooked cultured neurons up to machinery to teach them to play a video game, and more.

With deep learning methods revolutionizing life sciences, researchers bet on de novo proteins and cell mapping models to deliver customized precision medicines.

Animals with human cells could provide donor organs or help us understand neuropsychiatric disorders.

A new study confirms reports of membrane-bound RNA molecules and points to their role in neutrophil migration.

The scenarios that run through our sleeping brains may help us explore possible solutions to concerns from our waking lives.

Genetic adaptations for human brain development also make us vulnerable to Alzheimer’s disease, according to a new study.  

Clinical trials that target human endogenous retroviruses to treat multiple sclerosis, ALS, and other ailments are underway, but many questions remain about how these sequences may disrupt our biology.