Neurons talk to one another using electricity. If you could hear these impulses, they might sound like constant, rapid-fire chatter all over the nervous system. Heart muscle cells do something similar ...

The human brain, like the brain of other mammals, is known to start developing before birth, via a coordinated sequence of ...

Deep within our nerve cells, a molecule is at work that has no beginning and no end. Instead of a straight chain, as is ...

Due to the lack of self-renewal ability of podocytes, mild podocyte depletion triggers replacement and repair processes mostly driven by stem cells or resident parietal epithelial cells (PECs). In ...