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 ...

This video explains the stages of mitosis, contrasts them with meiosis and the creation of haploid gametes, and concludes by ...

AN ADULT HUMAN body consists of some 37trn cells. Not so long ago, these were thought to come in 220 different types. That number, the product of painstaking decades spent peering through microscopes ...

Scientists at ETH Zurich have broken new ground by generating over 400 types of nerve cells from stem cells in the lab, far surpassing previous efforts that produced only a few dozen. By ...

No less than 16 different types of nerve cells have been identified by scientists in a new study on the human sense of touch. Comparisons between humans, mice and macaques show both similarities and ...

Stem cells have the ability to mature into an array of different cell types and serve as part of the body's repair systems. To further explore how the cells function, it was necessary to keep the ...

Glaucoma is a chronic and progressive optic neuropathy that is the leading cause of irreversible visual impairment on a global scale. It is characterised by the gradual degeneration of retinal ...

Immunotherapies – treatments that aim to make the body's natural immune system more effective – are becoming more widely used ...

Constructing and mining gene regulatory network are crucial for explaining biological phenomena such as cell differentiation and cell fate, and can even be used to discover the immune escape pathways ...

Full-body defense does not always look the way textbooks say it should. In planarian flatworms, a newly identified cell type ...