Scientists have identified no less than 16 distinct types of nerve cells in the human dorsal root ganglion (DRG), ...

Scientists are getting into the epidermis to explore how skin and nerve cells interact. “The skin is basically the window to the outside,” said Kathryn Albers, a neuroscientist at the University of ...

A recent study by the Hector Institute for Translational Brain Research (HITBR) at the Central Institute of Mental Health ...

To understand why certain parts of the brain are more affected by ... Interestingly, the researchers also discovered that oligodendrocytes, brain cells that help insulate nerve fibers, were less ...

nerve cells, muscle cells, ciliated cells, and villi. Get it, lark? Anyone…? Okay let's move on. An animal cell is made of three main parts a nucleus, cell membrane and cytoplasm, which holds ...

A complementary drug to combat Alzheimer’s disease could target a specific part of the nerve cell protein tau. This is the finding of research from the University of Gothenburg, which also offers a ...

Researchers from The University of Texas at Arlington and the University of California–San Francisco have used a new ...