Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have discovered clues as to how our bodies turn sensations such as ...

Nature has developed a unique structure as a scaffold for almost all nerve cells: the membrane-associated periodic skeleton ...

Scientists develop lab-grown model of the human sensory pathway to investigate how pain signals are transmitted to the brain.

Treatment with CNM-Au8 led to clinical improvements in relapsing-remitting MS patients that linked to signs of nerve cell ...

Listen to Story They worked out the cerebral architecture in a tissue sample The tissue sample was the size of a grain of sand It has over 200,000 cells including roughly 84,000 nerve cells ...

A pyramidal cell type and the 5-HT 2A receptor in the medial frontal cortex have essential roles in psilocybin’s long-term drug action. Through multiday imaging and acute whole-cell recordings ...

So his team created four different brain organoids, spherical clumps of human nerve cells that grow in a dish. Pasca says the team coaxed each organoid to resemble one specific type of brain or ...