The data convincingly show that the transcription factor Sp1 regulates ephrin-mediated axon guidance in the spinal cord. Although the authors show that Sp1 and its co-activators p300 and CBP are ...

Every soft caress of wind, searing burn and seismic rumble is detected by our skin’s tangle of touch sensors. David Ginty has ...

Connections made via apical synapses seemed to be strengthened by movement information more than those made via basal ...

and detailed segmentation of the neuron's axon and dendritic branches. These features are designed to work across a wide range of datasets, helping researchers gather consistent data for different ...

Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date.

and detailed segmentation of the neuron’s axon and dendritic branches. These features are designed to work across a wide range of datasets, helping researchers gather consistent data for different ...

Scientists say an extract of the ancient medicinal plant a shwagandha has shown promise as a potential treatment to slow the symptoms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as motor neurone ...

Using a piece of that mouse’s brain about the size of a poppy seed, the researchers identified those neurons and traced how they communicated via branch ... neuron along fibers called axons ...

Motor neurone disease (MND ... travel from the brain to the spinal cord and the lower motor neurones, which branch out to the various muscle groups around the body. Primary lateral sclerosis ...