Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they unexpectedly found new information about a protein's special role in getting ...

An interdisciplinary research team led by Professor Francesca Santoro and Dr. Valeria Criscuolo from the Institute of ...

In ALS, the loss of certain proteins turns off a gene called UNC13A that needs to stay active for nerve cell communication, a ...

Advanced light microscopy techniques are giving scientists a new understanding of human biology and what goes wrong in ...

New research shows mitochondria in neurons track energy stress to trigger sleep, revealing potential treatments.

When hepatitis E viruses attack nerve cells Date: November 18, 2024 Source: Ruhr-University Bochum Summary: Hepatitis E viruses (HEV) typically cause liver infections. They can, however, also ...

Nerve cells of blind mice retain their visual function Nerve cells in the retina were analysed using microelectrodes Date: November 26, 2024 Source: Vienna University of Technology Summary: Using ...

When these nerve cells were killed, the drug's effect on appetite and fat loss instead decreased significantly. However, side effects such as nausea and muscle loss remained.

Cancer cells (red, with their nuclei stained blue) grow thin tubes to siphon mitochondria out of nerve cells (green). Credit: Simon Grelet and Gustavo Ayala ...

Nerve cells in the retina were analysed at TU Wien (Vienna) using microelectrodes. They show astonishingly stable behavior – good news for retina implants Peer-Reviewed Publication ...