Stanford scientists have solved a long-standing challenge in growing brain organoids by using a simple food additive to keep ...

Lead poisoning isn’t just an industrial-age problem. A new study reveals our ancestors, including Neanderthals, were exposed ...

Researchers at the Central Institute of Mental Health (CIMH) in Mannheim, together with international partners, have ...

Long before factories, mines, and cars filled the air with pollution, our distant ancestors were already living with a silent ...

An international study changes the view that exposure to the toxic metal lead is largely a post-industrial phenomenon. The ...

A new study suggests that exposure to lead may have limited brain and language development in Neanderthals, but a gene ...

A new 3D human brain tissue platform developed by MIT researchers is the first to integrate all major brain cell types, ...

Lead exposure remains a public health issue around the world, even after decades of remediation efforts. According to the ...

MIT scientists have developed a new 3D human brain tissue model that could change how researchers study neurological diseases ...

Lead exposure may have spelled evolutionary success for humans—and extinction for our ancient cousins—but other scientists ...

Hearing the sound of their mother's voice promotes development of language pathways in a premature baby's brain, according to ...