A small population of nerve cells appears to be responsible for blood flow and neural activity across the entire brain, ...

The gene editing tool known as CRISPR-Cas9 is changing what's possible for treating a wide range of diseases caused by ...

A collection of studies that chart how mammalian brain cells grow and differentiate is a ‘very valuable’ tool for ...

Researchers have discovered another layer of complexity in gene expression, which could help explain how we're able to have so many billions of neurons in our brain. SMU (Southern Methodist University ...

A new study published in eLife has found that a remarkably rare type of neuron acts as a master conductor for the brain’s ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Examining the human brain at the cellular level in more detail than ever before, scientists have identified an enormous array of cell types - more than 3,300 - ...

Not all brain cells are found in the brain. For example, a team at Caltech has identified two distinct types of neurons in the abdomens of mice that appear to control different aspects of digestion.

Retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) are the bottleneck through which all visual impressions flow from the retina to the brain. A team from the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, University of California ...

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