From stars to needles to amorphous globs, scientists are demystifying a snowflake’s complex construction, showing how factors ...

Published in Nature Communications, the study describes how two key proteins allow glial cells to actively monitor the hair-like cilia that extend out of nematode dendrites, so that the glial ...

Some snowflakes have very simple shapes, but others, like dendrite snowflakes, have lots of different patterns. The name dendrite means tree-like, because they look like they have branches ...

Beyond the all-or-nothing activity of a whole neuron, the structural traces of memory are formed by the patterns of ...