Meet the newly discovered brain cell that allows you to remember objects
UBC researchers have discovered a new type of neuron that plays a fundamental role in recognition memory—how the brain ...
New method enables protein labeling of tens of millions of densely packed cells in organ-scale tissues
A new technology developed at MIT enables scientists to label proteins across millions of individual cells in fully intact 3D tissues with unprecedented speed, uniformity, and versatility. Using the ...
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How Brain Cells Work
Although neurons are considered the basic units of the brain and nervous system, they do not do all the work. Glia are a non-neuronal category of cells that do not transmit electrical signals but ...
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Brain-cell 'periodic table' for psychiatric disorders reveals new schizophrenia clues
Like the periodic table of elements, which has enabled generations of scientists to predict the existence of yet-undiscovered elements and the behavior of those already known, the brain-cell ...
Deep learning provides new view on 300 million years of brain evolution
In a new study published in Science, a Belgian research team explores how genetic switches controlling gene activity define ...
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Researchers discover the brain cells that tell you to stop eating
Columbia scientists have found specialized neurons in the brains of mice that order the animals to stop eating. Though many feeding circuits in the brain are known to play a role in monitoring food ...