Engineers interested in creating artificial cells to deliver drugs to unhealthy parts of the body face a key challenge: for a ...

Engineers at Northwestern University have taken a striking leap toward merging machines with the human brain by printing ...

Camillo Golgi (1843–1926) delivered his 1906 Nobel lecture The Neuron Doctrine – Theory and Facts1 before the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and in the presence of his Nobel co-laureate Santiago ...

Researchers suggest tunneling may reflect a conserved strategy adopted by specialized migratory cell types in dense tissues.

A new study in songbirds might help explain why humans don’t generate many new brain cells, called neurons, as adults ...

A team at Northwestern University has fabricated artificial neurons by printing them onto flexible plastic, and the tiny ...

Brain function has traditionally been interpreted within a neuron-centric framework; however, this view has shifted toward a model of neuron-glia ...

Every thought, memory, and feeling we experience depends on trillions of tiny connection points in the brain called synapses.

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara are coming ever closer to uncovering the neural circuitry that translates stimulus to action, shining light on previously ...

Northwestern University engineers printed artificial neurons that don't just imitate the brain—they talk to it. In a new ...

Olfactory fear conditioning biases olfactory stem cell receptor fate, increasing the frequency by which maturing neurons express the receptor of the paired odor and changing the representation of the ...

Findings underpin the scientific rationale for Anavex’s targeted autophagy approach with orally administered blarcamesineConvergence of impaired ...