Republican presidential candidate and retired neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson responded on Thursday to allegations that he had botched a woman’s surgery by leaving a sponge in her brain by saying ...

When asked whether or not he left a sponge in a patient’s brain, Carson suggested what actually happened was a bad reaction to medical materials used during an operation.

What Is Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease? Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a rare brain disorder. It makes your brain tissue look sponge-like when looked at under a microscope. "Unfortunately, CJD is a ...

The team calls them “neuroid” because they had long tendrils, resembling those of neurons. They were found in the sponge’s digestive chamber and made contact with many of the other cells within.

After silently lurking for almost 50 years, a prion disease erupted in the brain of a woman in the US, triggering a rapid and severe neurological decline before taking her life. The source of the ...

Researchers constructed functioning 3-D brain tissue using this doughnut-shaped scaffold. Credit: Tufts University. You may have heard someone's memory praised with the saying "You have a brain like a ...

A History of the Human Brain: From the Sea Sponge to CRISPR, How Our Brain Evolved, by Bret Stetka; Timber Press, 2021. Treat yourself to reading this book.

“The brain is like a sponge the first year of life, so everything that we offer is letting that brain make connections -- bring connection to objects, visual tracking and socialization, which is ...

A History of the Human Brain: From the Sea Sponge to CRISPR, How Our Brain Evolved, by Bret Stetka; Timber Press, 2021 Treat yourself to reading this book. On the subjects that draw your interest ...