Nearly 150 years ago, scientists began to imagine how information might flow through the brain based on the shapes of neurons ...

Is the human brain, with all its problem-solving ... by a scaffold of proteins that maintains a cell’s shape. Under an electron microscope, protein fibers called actin filaments look like ...

Neurons are the cells that govern brain function ... had was associated with specific cognitive functions, we looked under ...

Three days later, microscope examination of the brain slices revealed it to be dotted with the distinctive spindle-shaped cells ... we have so little to go on, under those circumstances all ...

Scientists achieved “a milestone” by charting the activity and structure of 200,000 cells in a mouse brain and their 523 ...

Astrocytes are brain cells that interact intimately with neurons and their circuits to maintain proper conditions for nervous system function. Neurons release a protein called Sonic hedgehog (Shh ...

To selectively identify and extract these cells, we infected dissociated fetal human brain cells with adenoviruses bearing the gene for green fluorescence protein (GFP), placed under the control ...

Let's take a look at how to observe cells under a microscope. No prizes for guessing the first thing you'll need: a microscope. But don't worry if you don't have one of your own. Ask your school ...