For the first time, neuroscientists from Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence (currently in the process of being established) have revealed the ...

People are great at detecting cold temperatures and the cool sensation induced by natural substances like menthol. And while the same protein in nerve cells is responsible for sensing both, it isn't ...

Researchers have developed a method to grow and maintain olfactory stem cells. The work is a launch pad for developing stem cell transplantation therapies or pharmacologic activation of a patient's ...

Closely related subtypes of dopamine-releasing neurons may play entirely separate roles in processing sensory information, ...

THE Croonian Lecture was delivered by Prof. Ramon y Cajal at the Royal Society on March 8. After giving a short historical survey of his subject and referring to the work of Kölliker, His, Van ...

Art and science. They may seem like distant fields, but there was a scientist who achieved brilliant research by leveraging his artistic talent. He was the Spanish biologist Santiago Ramón y Cajal, ...