The nervous system contains hundreds of different ... There are multiple types of glial cells with distinct purposes. Major kinds of glia include: ...

Knowledge of how the nervous system processes the information in ... such as when a hair is being deflected. The other type of nerve cell, on the contrary, tires more slowly.

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have developed a method that shows how the nervous system and sensory organs are formed ...

Researchers have developed a method that shows how the nervous system and sensory organs are formed in an embryo. By labeling stem cells with a genetic 'barcode', they have been able to follow the ...

The nervous system is a complex network of neurons and cells that carry messages to and ... The high comorbidity of type 2 diabetes (T2D) with psychiatric or neurodegenerative disorders points ...

The nervous system consists of the ... A complete inventory of the Drosophila visual system classifies about 53,000 neurons into 732 types. The shapes and connections of all the visual neurons ...

A research team led by Prof. WU Qingfeng at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences demonstrated the conserved cellular development and evolutionary ...

Observations of electrical signal propagation across colonies of epithelial cells suggest they may be able to communicate, ...