Heart muscle cells do something similar, issuing electrical “heave-ho” signals that make the organ beat. Skin and other epithelial cells, however, were thought to be silent; they form barrier ...

Scientists from The University of Manchester have changed our understanding of how cells in living organisms divide, which could revise what students are taught at school. In a study published ...

Citations N.V. Kukushkin et al. The massed-spaced learning effect in non-neural human cells. Nature Communications. Published online November 7, 2024. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-53922-x.

Chloroplasts, the parts of cells that allow plants and algae to photosynthesize, are thought to have originated more than 1 billion years ago, when photosynthetic cyanobacteria lived symbiotically ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — When the myelin sheath that surrounds nerve fibers in the brain and spinal cord becomes damaged, a number of debilitating conditions can result that limit mobility, inhibit ...

Schwann Cells Detect Touch Sensations, Demonstrated by Optogenetics February 8, 2024 ...

Abstract Sensory Schwann cells set perceptual thresholds for touch and selectively regulate mechanical nociception Previous work identified nociceptive Schwann cells that can initiate pain. Consistent ...

The isolation of embryonic stem cells in 1998 was a fundamental breakthrough for biology. But despite high hopes new medical treatments based on those stem cells haven't materialized.

Scientists show that Schwann cells take over functions of immune cells in nerve healing. Similar mechanisms could prevent nerve tumors from growing. Schwann cells are known to protect and repair ...

The researchers used several experimental approaches to identify how Schwann cells help cancer spread. They analyzed Schwann cells in human pancreatic tumors and saw that if the gene signature for ...

Enteric glia help the gut digest food, for instance, and a type of glia called Schwann cells, sisters to the brain’s oligodendrocytes, spread myelin on peripheral nerves to help speed signals along.