New nerve cell connections on sensory cells in mice could be at fault Conventional wisdom has long blamed age-related hearing loss almost entirely on the death of sensory hair cells in the inner ear, ...

When Doug Woods, a student at the University of South Carolina, swabbed his cheek at a sorority philanthropy event, he thought it was just a simple act of kindness—one that would likely go unnoticed.

Living organisms are made up of hundreds of thousands of cells that cooperate to create the organs and systems that breathe, eat, move, and think. Now, researchers from Japan have developed a new way ...

Some parts of the body can recover from injury fairly rapidly. The cornea, for example, can heal from minor scratches within a single day. The human brain, however, is not one of these fast-healing ...

Allen Institute researchers Leila Elabbady and Clay Reid examine brain mapping data from the MICrONS project. (Allen Institute Photo) Researchers say they’ve accomplished a feat that was said to be ...

Humans are social beings, and it shouldn’t be surprising that there are specific groups of nerve cells in the brain that are directly influenced by social experiences. One important mechanism ...

Dr. Daniel Pompa’s recent Instagram insights have highlighted a fascinating phenomenon that bridges the gap between our emotions and cellular health, demonstrating how psychological stress directly ...

New research reveals how a class of neurons that help coordinate communication in the brain link up with their target cells, identifying two molecules that must be present before synapses, the ...

Small cell lung cancer cells that metastasize to the brain cozy up to neurons and form working electrical connections, called synapses, according to an upcoming study led by Stanford Medicine ...

Gladstone scientists unveiled a powerful computation tool, called CellWalker2, that integrates different forms of biological data to reveal how cell types are related across tissues, experiments, and ...