When a house catches on fire, we assume that a smoke alarm inside will serve one purpose and one purpose only: warn the ...

The disruption of axons—the thread-like part of nerve cells that transmits electrical signals—is associated with Alzheimer's disease. One way axonal function may be hindered is through damage to the ...

For millions living with nerve pain, even a light touch can feel unbearable. Scientists have long suspected that damaged ...

The human brain is not a fast-healing organ. Normally it doesn’t need to be as adult brain cells are stable and last for a ...

Microneurography is a method that allows the researchers to listen to the nerve signalling in one nerve cell at a time. No less than 16 different types of nerve cells have been identified by ...

Proteins are the end products of the decoding process that starts with the information in cellular DNA. As workhorses of the cell, proteins compose structural and motor elements in the cell, and they ...

Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have discovered that targeting a specific immune process ...

The average human cell contains roughly 10,000 different proteins. Existing as several to millions of copies in each cell, proteins mediate all manner of tasks, including chemical transformations, ...

One of the most well-studied cellular responses is how they react during times of stress, such as when the temperature gets ...