No less than 16 different types of nerve cells have been identified by scientists in a new study on the human sense of touch. Comparisons between humans, mice and macaques show both similarities ...

Nerve cells that had similar gene expression profiles were grouped together as one sensory nerve cell type. In this way, they identified 16 distinct types of nerve cells in humans.

The first part of the project will look at whether different features of brain nerve cells allow tau to spread more easily between them. To do this the team will introduce genes or switch off genes to ...

Using a new cell model, researchers can for the first time study how hepatitis E viruses affect nerve cells. Hepatitis E viruses (HEV) typically cause liver infections. They can, however ...

The received wisdom said we were built from around 200 types of cell – such as heart muscle or nerve cells. Instead the Human Cell Atlas project has revealed there are thousands of cell types ...

This also applies to schizophrenia, in which nerve cells (neurons) develop incorrectly. A team of scientists at the NMI led by Aaron Stahl, Prof. Hansjürgen Volkmer and Dr. Markus Templin have ...

For the first time, researchers have sorted large numbers of human brain cells in the substantia nigra into 10 distinct types ... come with the death of nerve cells in the substantia nigra.

The hypothesis that it disrupts the function of retinal ganglion cell axons by increasing mechanical forces on the lamina cribrosa of the optic nerve head has received considerable experimental ...

Making panda stem cells, mapping a fruit fly’s brain and witnessing a black hole wake up were among the biggest achievements of the year.

The new method showed that the tumour cells are connected to different types of nerve cells throughout the entire brain at a very early stage of the disease. This means that they form a network of ...

The body contains various types of nerve cells, including graded neurons that encode information through continuous changes in membrane potential, allowing subtle and precise signal processing. In ...