During embryonic development, thousands of cells divide and move collectively, sculpting the main body axes from an initially ...

A new model suggests that astrocytes might be used in computation, coordinating with neurons and connecting synapses in ...

Picture a living cell as if it were a city. If you were the urban planner for this (very little, very alive) city, one of the ...

For centuries, philosophers and healers alike have speculated about how thoughts, emotions, and consciousness exert tangible ...

But a new area of research has recently emerged: the tempo of brain development. By mapping the birth of neurons in mice, his team has identified a factor in brain formation that had previously been ...

New studies show that astrocytes, long thought to be support cells in the brain, are crucial intermediaries for relaying messages to neurons.

but neurons do not work alone – glial cells, neurotransmitters, receptors, and other molecules form a vast communication web that governs everything from thought to behavior. Inside each neuron ...

In the present study, male C57BL/6JN mice were used for the aging and exercise cohorts, while male whole-body inducible ... identified 18 cell types, including neurons, glial cells, and immune ...

And that triggers the next neuron to fire. And in the decades since, researchers– some groups said glial cells can signal like this ... I want to move to talk about glia in another part of the body ...

Focusing back on the AMsh-AFD interaction, the team asked a follow-up question: KCC-3 appeared to mediate this glia-neuron interaction by localizing specifically to their interface, but how was this ...

Careful clustering of these molecules ensures that the glial cell can conduct a distinct “conversation” with each neuron. Through these molecular interlocutors, glia can “coach” neurons, influencing ...

From the moment you swallow a bite of food to the moment it exits your body, the gut is toiling to ... Others reveal the diversity of glial cells that exist in the gut, and how each type may ...