Even though vitamin B12 is found in many foods, its insufficiency and deficiency are relatively common. Low B12 symptoms lead ...

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 ...

The nerves that make up the peripheral nervous system are actually the axons (or bundles of axons) from nerve cells or neurons. In some cases, these nerves are very small, but some nerve bundles ...

Scientists found that aggressive lung cancer cells create their own electrical network, helping them spread. This unique ...

In 1898, Camillo Golgi, an eminent Italian physician and pathologist, published a landmark paper on the structure of “nervous cells.” In addition to the organelle that still bears his name, the Golgi ...

Neuroscience examines the structure and function of the human brain and nervous system ... an estimated hundred billion neurons, or brain cells, each with about a thousand connections to other ...

Mar. 13, 2025 — Researchers devised a process to convert a skin cell directly into a neuron, eliminating the need to generate induced pluripotent stem cells. Such neurons could be used to treat ...

Gene therapy in the central nervous system (CNS) is hindered by the presence of the blood–brain barrier, which restricts access of serum constituents and peripheral cells to the brain parenchyma.