In a potentially major breakthrough for regenerative medicine, scientists at MIT have developed a way to convert skin cells ...

The first wiring diagram of every neuron in an adult brain and the 50 ... including researchers from the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (in Cambridge, UK), Princeton University, the ...

Until now, skin cells have been viewed as barriers that can respond to electric stimuli. Turns out, they also generate ...

While this group of colorful neurons was grown in a dish from stem cells, in the body neurons like this are responsible for sensing pain. There is a specialized subset of sensory neurons called ...

The laboratory of Ege Kavalali, professor and chair of the Department of Pharmacology, published a paper in Nature ...

The aim of this project is to determine if we can use zebrafish to study motor neuron biology and degeneration. Zebrafish afford many advantages over mice in terms of their amenability to live imaging ...

BBB is already working with ethicists and regulatory experts to ensure its technology is developed responsibly.

The rate of development of poikilothermic animals, such as insects, fish, and reptiles, is determined by environmental ...

There are two types of removal: Re-uptake – the neurotransmitter is reabsorbed back into the presynaptic neuron and restored inside a vesicle ready to be used again. For example, noradrenaline.