A new machine learning model shows that star-shaped brain cells may be responsible for the brain's memory capacity, and ...

How do we think, feel, remember, or move? It all depends on transmission of chemical signals in the brain, carried and released by molecular containers called vesicles. In a new study, researchers ...

Researchers have developed a groundbreaking computational model that provides detailed insights into the vesicle cycle, a key ...

Brazilian researchers found that boosting the synthesis of hevin, a glycoprotein naturally secreted by astrocytes, led to ...

A new study by Pitt researchers challenges a decades-old assumption in neuroscience by showing that the brain uses distinct ...

New research from MIT suggests that astrocytes - long considered support cells - may play a key role in the human brain's ...

A new study from Pitt researchers challenges long-held views on synaptic transmission. They discovered that the brain uses ...

Mitochondria Are More Than Powerhouses—They’re the Motherboard of the Cell ...

And in the process she ... nerve cell by releasing chemical messengers called neurotransmitters that then cross the small gap between the nerve cells called a synapse to then stimulate the ...

Professor Monica Olvera de la Cruz and postdoctoral researcher Ahis Shrestha discovered a new ion-driven flow mechanism in ...

Types of large sea slugs called the California sea hare and black sea hare can be found off the coast and in tide pools ...