All cells, whether big or small, short or long, rely on proteins to function properly. In most cells, transporting these proteins is relatively simple. Neurons in the brain, however, face a ...

Humans and other animals constantly make predictions about future events based on previous experiences and their perceptions ...

Have you ever wondered how a fly manages to dodge you in a split second? Scientists have long been fascinated by the ...

A tiny stack of printed nanomaterials, thinner than a human hair and flexible enough to bend with living tissue, just did ...

Researchers at Princeton University have developed a hybrid biocomputing platform called 3D-MIND that integrates living brain ...

The mouse was genetically modified to express green fluorescent protein in smell neurons. A small subset of dying neurons is ...

In mouse brain cells, and in follow-up work involving worms and human cortical neurons, the team found that many axons ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have successfully demonstrated that disrupting an eye structure long suspected of blocking the growth and survival of transplanted nerve cells may help ...

The odor receptors in the nose are not distributed at random but organized in a precise spatial pattern, two new studies reveal. By Emily Anthes Over the last century, scientists have mapped several ...

Neuron networks in the brains hippocampus, the memory centre, are dense with connections that appear random, but as animals mature, the networks become sparser but more structured and refined, a study ...

The structure, made of repeating rings of proteins, was previously known for helping neurons maintain their shape. The scientists said they now understand it plays a far more active role by deciding ...

Closely related subtypes of dopamine-releasing neurons may play entirely separate roles in processing sensory information, depending on their physical structure. New research from the Institute of ...