In the developing brain, neurons must navigate through complex and often crowded tissue to reach their final ...

Scientists have identified a previously unknown type of neural stem cell (pNSC) that exists outside the brain and spinal cord ...

Using in-vitro models of a specific type of brain cell, scientists have demonstrated that neurons can transform from one type ...

Using in-vitro models of a specific type of brain cell, scientists show that neurons are capable of changing from one type to ...

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 ...

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Researchers used advanced cryo-electron microscopy to capture atomic-level images of how glutamate, a key neurotransmitter, ...

This is the same type of neuron — a pyramidal cell — from the cortex of a mouse, chimp and human. The mouse brain has fewer of these cells and they are less well connected compared with the ...

Mirror neurons are a type of brain cell that is activated both when performing ... more difficult to record the activity of a single neuron in human brains. However, studies using neuroimaging ...

Washington DC: Researchers devised a process to convert a skin cell directly into a neuron, eliminating the need to generate induced pluripotent stem cells. Such neurons could be used to treat ...