A new understanding of how tumours exploit our nervous system is leading to new ways to treat cancer using familiar drugs like Botox and beta blockers ...

Scientists have developed a 3D-printed implant that delivers targeted electrical stimulation to damaged areas of the spinal ...

A report of the research was published online Nov. 21 in the journal Neuron.. To control muscle movements, fruit flies, like other animals, have a set of nerve cells called motor neurons that ...

Scientists have successfully grown over 400 different types of nerve cells from stem cells in the lab—a groundbreaking step toward replicating the complexity of the human brain.

NO SIGNS In a study of human brains, young nerve cells (green) were visible in the memory-related hippocampus of a newborn (left), but were rare in a sample from a 13-year-old (center).None were ...

Front and center in this process is the motor neuron, the nerve cell that controls movement. Motor neurons in the spinal cord extend long, wirelike tendrils all the way out to fingers and toes.

Motor neurons are cells in your brain and spinal cord that help you walk, talk, and eat. Learn how damage to these cells could affect your movement and what your doctor can do to treat it.

The Glia Factor Neuroscientists may be more willing to accept such heresy because of a startling expansion in thinking beyond the neuron doctrine in the early 1990s: most of the cells in the human ...

Now, researchers at UC San Francisco have found a new type of neuron that guides its formation. The discovery, described in the May 23, 2024, issue of Cell, could one day lead to new therapies for ...

It’s called the rosehip neuron, and they comprise about 10 to 15 percent of the upper layer of the human neocortex—the portion of the brain responsible for much of our advanced cognition.