An international team of researchers led by the Francis Crick Institute, working with the Paul Scherrer Institute, has ...

Inside the cell reside many tiny assembly factories and warehouses that gather together all of the proteins and RNAs—which ...

This valuable study addresses a critical and timely question regarding the role of a subpopulation of cortical interneurons (Chrna2-expressing Martinotti cells) in motor learning and cortical dynamics ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have used a "zap-and-freeze" technology to watch hard-to-see brain cell communications in living brain tissue from mice and humans.

For years, researchers have watched the tiny power plants inside brain cells falter in Parkinson’s disease and wondered what ...

Paul Hellmich Corporate Communications Center Technische Universität München. Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest typ ...

Scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine say intercellular nanotubes (thin, green-dominant bridge-like connections) contribute to additional layer of communicational network among neurons. Credit: ...

Scientists have built an artificial neuron that’s so realistic it fires, learns, and responds to chemical signals just like the real thing – a breakthrough that could transform computing, medicine, ...

Professor Mark Spritzer’s laboratory recently published a paper in the journal Biomolecules describing the effects of the hormone testosterone and its major metabolites upon adult neurogenesis. In a ...

Using a tiny, spherical glass lens sandwiched between two brass plates, the 17th-century Dutch microscopist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was the first to officially describe red blood cells and sperm cells ...