When a fruit ... it guides the fly’s steering behavior. A critical subtraction First, they took a closer look at a well-known class of neurons, called “horizontal system” cells, or HS ...

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have discovered that impaired glucose metabolism in glial cells, a type of cell in our nervous system, plays a key role in the degeneration caused by ...

The scientists found that Eato -- a fruit-fly protein whose counterparts in mammals were already known for helping brain cells get rid of harmful fats -- actually has a much bigger job.