Microscopically small cages can be produced at TU Wien (Vienna). Their grid openings are only a few micrometers in size, making them ideal for holding cells and allowing living tissue to grow in a ...

For the first time, neuroscientists from Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence (currently in the process of being established) have revealed the ...

Our brain’s memory center bears a sleek design. A peek into living tissue from human hippocampi, a brain region crucial for memory and learning, revealed relatively few cell-to-cell connections for ...

Researchers at the Center for Life Sciences at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have for the first time identified structural changes in the botulinum neurotoxin, botox for short, that are believed to ...

In the brain, it is not only important that nerve cells send signals, but also how quickly they can do so. In order for ...

A rat study has found that aerobic exercise may reshape nerves that control the heart. However, the impact was not the same ...

An artificial neuron made of conductive plastics that can perform advanced functions similar to those of biological nerve ...

Researchers demonstrate an artificial neuron made of conductive plastics that can perform advanced functions similar to those ...

Researchers at Linköping University have built artificial neurons from conductive plastics that replicate up to 17 biological ...

An artificial neuron made of conductive plastics that can perform advanced functions similar to those of biological nerve ...