The human brain contains billions of neurons, specialized nerve cells that communicate with each other via electrical and ...
It's a fact of life that the electrical activity of neurons will vary during the same task, even when the ultimate outcome is ...
Researchers at the Gladstone Institutes have identified a specific protein, Nell2, that causes neurons in the hippocampus to ...
In a town on the shores of Lake Geneva sit clumps of living human brain cells for hire. These blobs, about the size of a grain of sand, can receive electrical signals and respond to them — much as ...
Small cell lung cancer cells that metastasize to the brain cozy up to neurons and form working electrical connections, called synapses, according to an upcoming study led by Stanford Medicine ...
Most people wouldn’t give Geobacter sulfurreducens a second look. The bacteria was first discovered in a ditch in rural Oklahoma. But the lowly microbe has a superpower. It grows protein nanotubes ...
Epilepsy affects more than 50 million people worldwide, making it one of the most common neurological disorders. Although ...