The human sense of touch is a complex system that integrates diverse sensations such as pain, temperature, and pleasant ...

N o less than 16 different types of nerve cells have been identified by scientists in a new study on the human sense of touch. Comparisons between humans, mice and macaques show both similarities ...

She also wondered if nerve fibers tunnel into other cell types found in skin tissue, such as immune cells, and what that crosstalk between cell types might achieve. “No one tissue exists alone; ...

The presence of two types of hair cells, the inner and outer hair cells ... the result of a painstaking anatomical investigation which revealed that most of the nerve fibers that carry information to ...

Nerve cells have amazing strategies to save energy ... control spatial gene expression patterns and apply them across all types of molecules. The research team, led by corresponding author Prof.