No less than 16 different types of nerve cells have been identified by scientists in a new study on the human sense of touch.

No less than 16 different types of nerve cells have been identified by scientists in a new study on the human sense of touch. Comparisons between humans, mice and macaques show both similarities and ...

Among the more than 100 types of human papillomavirus (HPV), at least 14 are considered as 'high-risk' types which can cause ...

Nerve cells that had similar gene expression profiles were grouped together as one sensory nerve cell type. In this way, they identified 16 distinct types of nerve cells in humans.

Nerve cells are not just nerve cells. Depending on how finely we distinguish, there are several hundred to several thousand ...

To conduct the study, funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), researchers used cutting-edge single-cell RNA sequencing and advanced brain-mapping tools developed through NIH’s The BRAIN ...

A team of scientists at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) has uncovered a previously unknown mechanism that ...

In a comparative analysis across vertebrates of the many cell types in the retina -- mice alone have 130 types -- researchers concluded that most cell types have an ancient evolutionary history.

October 16, 2023 5:01 AM ET. Jon Hamilton Scientists built the largest-ever map of the human brain. Here's what they found. ... function of more than 3,000 types of brain cells.