Some parts of our bodies bounce back from injury in fairly short order. The outer protective layer of the eye—called the ...

Scientists developed two new sensors that can detect brain cell communication in real time, tracking chemical messages ...

“This is a paradigm shift,” says Donn Van Deren, PhD, postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, who ...

Based on new brain mapping research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), scientists have discovered that not all cell types in the brain age in the same way. They found that some cells, ...

Detailed mapping of 1.2 million brain cells has revealed that not all cell types age in the same way and that some – found in a specific ‘hot spot’ – are more sensitive to the aging process. It opens ...

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have created a method that makes it possible to transform the brain's support cells ...

Neurons are the cells in the brain responsible for sending messages to the rest of the body, and scientists have long thought that they are settled into one subtype once they develop from stem cells, ...