To uncover what drives sexual behavior in animals, researchers studied the brain activity of male mice throughout the series ...
A new study led by University of Calgary professor Dr. Tuan Trang, PhD, may help to explain why there is an ...
Researchers from the University of New Hampshire looked at the developmental process of the cerebral cortex—the outermost ...
which encodes a protein called SMN that enables muscles to receive nerve signals. Without this protein, muscles can’t function normally, and so they weaken and waste away over time. In ...
In what is being dubbed a medical marvel, doctors have managed to treat a deadly motor neuron disease in a baby ... higher levels of SMN protein and less nerve damage than other babies born ...
Previously, “both physicists and neuroscientists have largely dismissed the relevance of standard quantum mechanics to neuronal processes, as quantum effects are thought to disappear at the large ...
Scientists have developed a breakthrough technique to directly convert skin cells into neurons, bypassing the need for stem ...
Researchers discovered that epithelial cells that line human skin are able to communicate danger to the body through a silent ...
Each nerve cell, or neuron, has three parts: a cell body, which contains a nucleus, mitochondria and other organelles essential for cell function; a long tail called an axon, which transmits ...
A new study led by University of Calgary professor Dr. Tuan Trang, Ph.D., may help to explain why there are more women experiencing chronic pain than men. In 2019, the Canadian Pain Task Force report ...
Until now, skin cells have been viewed as barriers that can respond to electric stimuli. Turns out, they also generate ...