Neuropathy affects millions of people worldwide, causing chronic pain, numbness, weakness, and loss of function in the ...

It has long been thought that only nerve and heart cells use electric impulses to communicate, while epithelial cells -- which compose the linings of our skin, organs and body cavities -- are mute, ...

Scientists discover "electric spiking" communication in previously thought to be mute cells, paving the way for bioelectric ...

Textbooks usually depict the epithelial cells encasing the interior and exterior of your body as passive barriers. But ...

Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is one of the most common brain disorders linked to aging, affecting movement and often leading to ...

New research reveals that parrots produce speech using brain structures remarkably similar to those in humans.

Scientists found that aggressive lung cancer cells create their own electrical network, helping them spread. This unique ...

Oxytocin, a hormone linked to bonding behaviors, might also help mice modulate their pregnancies. Someday, this line of ...

Although the mechanism of problem-solving in sleep is uncertain, theories such as memory reactivation and reorganization ...

To uncover what drives sexual behavior in animals, researchers studied the brain activity of male mice throughout the series ...

Researchers discovered that epithelial cells that line human skin are able to communicate danger to the body through a silent ...

Neurons in the hippocampus control our spatial learning, however, they are very unstable. Researchers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität ...