While this group of colorful neurons was grown in a dish from stem cells, in the body neurons like this are responsible for sensing pain. There is a specialized subset of sensory neurons called ...

The aim of this project is to determine if we can use zebrafish to study motor neuron biology and degeneration. Zebrafish afford many advantages over mice in terms of their amenability to live imaging ...

In a potentially major breakthrough for regenerative medicine, scientists at MIT have developed a way to convert skin cells ...

BBB is already working with ethicists and regulatory experts to ensure its technology is developed responsibly.

The first wiring diagram of every neuron in an adult brain and the 50 ... including researchers from the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (in Cambridge, UK), Princeton University, the ...

There are two types of removal: Re-uptake – the neurotransmitter is reabsorbed back into the presynaptic neuron and restored inside a vesicle ready to be used again. For example, noradrenaline.