In a breakthrough with promising real-world applications, a team of Rutgers biophysicists, bioengineers, and plant biologists has captured the first live images. In a groundbreaking study, researchers ...

Researchers from the University of Rochester have begun an ambitious project to study if living neurons can transmit light through their axons—the long, tail-like nerve fibers of neurons that resemble ...

Researchers have recreated the human ascending sensory pathway in a lab dish, using organoids that model the key brain and ...

Vitamin B12 is a vital nutrient essential for maintaining a healthy nervous system, supporting red blood cell formation, and producing DNA.

From a pinprick to a warm breeze, every sensation you perceive begins its journey along this ascending sensory pathway. For the first time, scientists have recreated the entire human nervous system’s ...

Scientists have identified a previously unknown type of neural stem cell (pNSC) that exists outside the brain and spinal cord ...

Humans and other animal species can experience many types of pain throughout the course of their lives, varying in intensity, ...

For decades, scientists assumed that neural stem cells (NSCs) only occur in the brain and spinal cord. A new international ...

A vitamin B12 deficiency can be easily diagnosed with a blood test, and it's important to spot the signs early on to prevent ...

A scientific team has used millions of human cells to build neural circuits in the laboratory that sense painful stimuli and ...

Scientists have re-created a pain pathway in the brain by growing four key clusters of human nerve cells in a dish. This ...

Scientists created a model of the human pain pathway in a dish by connecting four separate brain organoids. The feat should help them understand sensory disorders like those affecting pain perception.