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Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have developed a method that shows how the nervous system and sensory organs are formed ...
Neuroscientists at Stanford University have grown a tiny, two-centimeter-long ‘sausage’ made of human cells that may hold ...
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New Brain Organoid Model
The Siegert group at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) presents a new organoid model that reveals details of the developing nervous ... have microglia in the system," explains ...
For decades, scientists assumed that neural stem cells (NSCs) only occur in the brain and spinal cord. A new international ...
The nervous system consists of the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) and the peripheral nervous system (motor nerves, sensory nerves, cranial and spinal nerves, autonomic ganglia ...
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 ...
The questions in this quiz are suitable for GCSE biology students studying homeostasis, the nervous system, the reflex arc, the brain and the eye. If you struggled with the quiz, don't panic - we ...