Plant cells have several structures not found in other eukaryotes. In particular, organelles called chloroplasts allow plants to capture the energy of the Sun in energy-rich molecules; cell walls ...

A UCL research team has found clues as to why some nerve cells die in dementia and not others, in a new study in fruit flies. The Alzheimer’s Research UK-funded study, published in Cell Reports, is ...

Certain nerve cells in fruit flies with C9orf72 mutations show greater resistance to degeneration linked to frontotemporal dementia and ALS by more effectively clearing harmful protein waste.

So his team created four different brain organoids, spherical clumps of human nerve cells that grow in a dish. Pasca says the team coaxed each organoid to resemble one specific type of brain or ...