The nervous system is a complex network of neurons and cells that carry messages to and from the brain and spinal cord to various parts of the body. New insights into what causes the painful and ...

The amount of microplastics in the human brain appears to be increasing over time: Concentrations rose by roughly 50 percent ...

Diseases of the nervous system refer to disorders that affect ... in peripheral organs and spread to the CNS. Using human tissue samples and multiple approaches in mouse models of renal failure ...

Researchers have developed a way of bioprinting tissues that change shape as a result ... changes during natural embryonic development. For example, the heart begins as a simple tube that ...

The nervous system is the body’s direct communication system. It’s made up of the body’s many nerve cells. These cells work together in a network that sends and receives signals from one ...

Market Snapshot Stock-market investors are getting nervous about this bond-market move that’s only happened twice in over 40 years Only twice since the early 1980s has the 10-year yield jumped ...

About 5,420 people (2,960 males and 2,450 females) are expected to die of soft tissue sarcomas. These statistics include both adults and children. Certain types occur more often in certain parts of ...

Octopus arms have segmented nervous systems to power extraordinary movements The large nerve cord running down each octopus arm is separated into segments, giving it precise control over movements ...

This discovery sheds light on the early evolution of multicellular communication and the origins of animal nervous systems. Researchers from the Burkhardt group at the Michael Sars Centre, University ...

An international team of scientists has uncovered a fascinating piece of the evolutionary puzzle: how the ventral nerve cord, a key component of the central nervous system, evolved in ecdysozoan ...