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 ...

Gene editing has emerged as a powerful approach for targeting the genetic causes of disease, but getting the editing ...

When probes are inserted into the brain for research or clinical purposes, the electrical activity of neurons is recorded.

This article was originally featured on Knowable Magazine. Roughly 20 years ago, a biologist named Caroline Gargett went in search of some remarkable cells in tissue that had been removed during ...

A new machine learning tool called PhysMAP separates the electrical signatures of different cell types, offering a new way to ...

Cancer cells can disarm the immune system not just by hiding from it, but by actively reprogramming nearby immune cells into a suppressed state. This previously unrecognized molecular interaction, ...

As far as research subjects go, it's not always easy to find common ground with a single-celled bacterium. Yet the more Paul ...