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 ...

Microscopically small cages can be produced at TU Wien (Vienna). Their grid openings are only a few micrometers in size, making them ideal for holding cells and allowing living tissue to grow in a ...

NERVE fibres have become greatly elongated for their function of conduction, but each yet remains essentially a bag, surrounded by a membrane, with the nucleus separated in a special region, the nerve ...

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 ...

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 ...