A new study may overturn the century-old understanding of how neurons are shaped—but not everyone is on board.

A neuron-specific splice ... prominent accumulations of vesicles, the size of synaptic vesicles, were apparent in axons apposed to neuroligin-expressing cells, but not in axons contacting non ...

Experiment reveals new blind spot in our physical reasoning: Most people cannot tell a weak knot from a strong one by looking at them ...

Dec. 18, 2024 — Scientists have generated human stem cell models which contain notochord -- a tissue in the developing embryo that acts like a navigation system, directing cells where to build ...

Biologists used artificial intelligence to make discoveries about molecules and the brain, and overturned long-held assumptions about the immune system and RNA.

Objective Progressive muscular atrophy (PMA) is a clinical diagnosis characterised by progressive lower motor neuron (LMN) symptoms/signs with sporadic adult onset ... Ten (76.9%) of the 13 patients ...

Dec. 16, 2024 — Researchers have uncovered unexpected diversity in the genetic processes that determine the sex of the African clawed frog, a significant discovery in what was already one of the ...

Neurons that fire together, wire together" describes the neural plasticity seen in human brains, but neurons grown in a dish ...

Open label study designed to evaluate the safety, tolerability, and efficacy of bremelanotide in patients with Type ...

Hippo signaling pathway, specifically wts-1/LATS and the downstream regulator yap, in age-dependent neurodegeneration and microtubule dynamics using C. elegans mechanosensory neurons as a model. The ...