Zebrafish have the remarkable and rare ability to regrow and repair their hearts after damage. New research from Caltech and ...

They travel through your spinal cord and out to nerves that extend like wires throughout your body. Your nervous system uses billions of tiny, connected nerve cells called neurons to send the ...

These self-renewing cells, which are capable of giving rise to any cell type in the body, reside in specialized ... new insight into the dynamics of the neural stem cell niche, the home of stem ...

By putting cells in between the electronics and the living body, the body doesn’t see the electrodes, ... The device has advantages over standard, non-stem-cell neural implants.

Our research provides valuable evidence that neural cell development is not solely driven by transcription factors." Alessandro Gardini, Wistar Institute Although every cell in our body carries ...

A protein found in our cells has emerged as a secret weapon against biological aging, acting like a glue to repair damaged ...

An international team of neuroscientists, led by Duke-NUS Medical School, have uncovered a mechanism that controls the ...

The nervous system is unusually suitable for analysis ... This is very unlike neurons in insects and crustacea, where the cell body is generally not excitable and is not near the “decision point” for ...

Have you ever wondered why a drumbeat makes your foot tap before you even realize it? It’s not magic or mystical ...