Using in-vitro models of a specific type of brain cell, scientists show that neurons are capable of changing from one type to ...

Brain size is tightly correlated with body size ... This is the same type of neuron — a pyramidal cell — from the cortex of a mouse, chimp and human. The mouse brain has fewer of these cells ...

Although neurons are considered the basic units of the brain and nervous system, they do not do all the work. Glia are a non-neuronal category of cells that do not transmit electrical signals but ...

This behaviour of an individual neuron, described in a paper in the journal Cell Reports, allows for the forming of higher and abstract concepts in the brain, which constitutes the basis of human ...

These results provide evidence of an actual group of cells that behaved similarly to the previously theorized Grandmother neuron; the cells were sensory with a fast, dependable response to visual ...

In order to become a distinct cell type like a muscle cell or a neuron, cells must go through a series of developmental steps, each closer to the final cell type. When cells reach the final step, they ...

Researchers devised a process to convert a skin cell directly into a neuron, eliminating the need to generate induced pluripotent stem cells. Such neurons could be used to treat spinal cord ...