In a new study published in Science, a Belgian research team explores how genetic switches controlling gene activity define ...

In their study published in Nature Communications, researchers identified an unusual type of brain cell they named “ovoid ...

UBC researchers have discovered a new type of neuron that plays a fundamental role in recognition memory—how the brain ...

Although neurons are considered the basic units of the brain and nervous system, they do not do all the work. Glia are a non-neuronal category of cells that do not transmit electrical signals but ...

Like the periodic table of elements, which has enabled generations of scientists to predict the existence of yet-undiscovered elements and the behavior of those already known, the brain-cell ...

Newly discovered brain cells count each bite before sending the order to cease eating a meal. Columbia scientists have found specialized neurons in the brains of mice that order the animals to ...

Scientists at UBC ‘s faculty of medicine have discovered a new type of brain cell called ‘ovoid cells.’ These specialized ...