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An experimental method, which can predict the aging rate of both brain and body, may detect who should implement lifestyle ...

The team’s findings showed that these neuronal predecessors are indeed present in the hippocampus throughout adulthood, ...

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Brain–computer interfaces being trialled in China offer some advantages over Neuralink and other leading US devices.

The team suspects that neurogenesis happens in other parts of the adult brain, too. In mice, new neurons are regularly made ...