An international research team led jointly by the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), the University of Göttingen and ...

A Boston company treated its first patient with a therapy intended to allow aging optic nerve cells to behave as though they were young again. The experimental treatment by Life Biosciences will ...

This short film focuses on the role of nervous system, how it functions, voluntary and involuntary reflexes and the function ...

Migrating newborn neurons suffer routine double-strand DNA breaks from physical stress during brain development.

Newborn nerve cells must squeeze through crowded, narrow spaces—through dense tissue, past other cells, and between fibers—to reach the areas where they form neural circuits in the brain cortex. In a ...

A contraceptive drug helps human nerve cells regenerate by unlocking their forgotten embryonic healing abilities.

Nerve cells are not just nerve cells. Depending on how finely we distinguish, there are several hundred to several thousand different types of nerve cells in the human brain, according to the latest ...

Nerve cells are not just nerve cells. Depending on how finely we distinguish, there are several hundred to several thousand different types of nerve cell in the human brain according to the latest ...

A tickly itch, a painful scratch, or the feeling of a refreshing breeze—the skin is teaming with nerve endings that drive these sensations. Scientists are getting into the epidermis to explore how ...

The fibers of the vagus nerve have many crucial roles. The vagus nerve helps regulate many physical functions including controlling heart rate and speech; it is related to the feeling of satiety after ...