Commonly, the brain cells or neurons were believed to remain permanently into the specific type they were formed. Each type ...

Concepts encoded by concept neurons can be an animal, an article of clothing, a place, or a person. The concept can be evoked ...

Each neuron receives signals from both excitatory ... There are multiple types of glial cells with distinct purposes. Major kinds of glia include: ...

Neurons are the cells in the brain responsible for sending messages to the rest of the body, and scientists have long thought ...

While an imbalance in neuron types has been linked to psychiatric and ... Chronic exposure to glucocorticoids amplifies inhibitory neuron cell fate during human neurodevelopment in organoids ...

Scientists have developed a breakthrough technique to directly convert skin cells into neurons, bypassing the need for stem cells.

Converting one type of cell to another—for example, a skin cell to a neuron—can be done through a process that requires the skin cell to be induced into a "pluripotent" stem cell, then ...

Working with mouse cells, the researchers developed a highly efficient conversion method that can produce more than 10 neurons from a single skin cell. If replicated in human cells, this approach ...

A new computational tool allows researchers to understand how the diverse cell types of the human body are ... the development of a specific kind of neuron found in the hippocampus of the brain ...