New research uncovers how the brain, immune system, and nervous system contribute to heart attack damage, revealing three nodes that could be targeted with new therapeutics.

Researchers uncover dynamic “dancing” molecules in spinal cord organoids, offering insights into neural development and ...

By analyzing tissue from patients with Parkinson's disease, and animal and cellular models of the disease, a research team ...

University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and Yale University School of Medicine, along with other collaborators ...

Researchers propose that placozoans, one of the simplest kinds of animals, may contain the blueprint for the neurons of more complex creatures. By Sam Jones For hundreds of millions of years, ...

Researchers have used a novel technique to 3D print brain tissue whose cells developed into functional neurons that communicated with each other in a matter of weeks. They say the approach could be ...

I still vividly remember the first time we observed neurons responding not to audible sound, but to concentrated, precisely ...

Hormones are a crucial part of the body's signaling system, and the controlled release of these compounds affects tissues around the body. Each of these hormones induces specific responses from these ...

To think, feel, talk and move, neurons send messages through electrical signals in the brain and spinal cord. This intricate ...

Activation of Cdc42 allows the microglia to change shape, surround the neuron, and engulf it. This process, known as ...