The axolotl may look cartoonishly harmless, but beneath its frilly gills lies one of evolution’s most astonishing survival ...

A new study has challenged previously held views that brain preservation in the archaeological record is extremely rare. The team compiled a new archive of preserved human brains, which highlighted ...

The central nervous system (CNS) consists of several types of cells having varied specialized functions. While many of these cell types have been studied, fibroblast cells in the CNS remain ...

Hour after hour, year after year, Santiago Ramón y Cajal sat alone in his home laboratory, head bowed and back hunched, his black eyes staring down the barrel of a microscope, the sole object ...

Hormones are a crucial part of the body's signaling system, and the controlled release of these compounds affects tissues around the body. Each of these hormones induces specific responses from these ...

The findings, published in Neuron, improve the understanding of Alzheimer’s disease pathogenesis. “It’s more [of] an exploratory study, but it creates a lot of useful information that can be mined,” ...