Nerve cells can be grown from stem cells in Petri dishes, enabling scientists to research diseases. Previously, it was only possible to create a few dozen different types of nerve cell. Using a new ...

Scientists at ETH Zurich have broken new ground by generating over 400 types of nerve cells from stem cells in the lab, far surpassing previous efforts that produced only a few dozen. By ...

The function of the human brain is mediated through its cell types and circuits, and decoding their nature and organization is essential to understanding behavior and thought. The brain contains a ...

Due to its complex nature, scientists have only really been unravelling the mysteries of the brain over the last few decades. And now researchers have discovered that the brains of mice contain at ...

One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet ...

We're all very complex organisms, made up of lots of different types of cells carrying out different jobs in our bodies; such as nerve cells, blood cells, fat cells and muscle cells. So, where do they ...