Scientists discovered that axons don’t quite look like straight cables. Instead, axons often appear like pearls on a string.

Cells detect weaker electrical signals than previously thought using active energy-consuming membrane processes.

Two new research papers have mapped out which pathways in the brain are responsible for driving hunger, food seeking and ...

A breakdown of how memory B, T, and innate cells remember past infections and how this insight powers vaccines and immunotherapies.

This important study presents a compelling theoretical framework for understanding phase separation of membrane-bound proteins, with a focus on the organization of tight junction components. By ...

Feature The future of archival data storage is tape, more tape, and then possibly glass-based tech, with DNA and other ...

Not all DNA looks like the familiar twisted ladder. Sometimes, parts of our genetic code fold into unusual shapes. One such ...

Scientists have uncovered how serotonergic neurons in larval zebrafish process visual information tied to movement to ...

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 ...

Programmed cell death serves as a critical defense mechanism during viral infection. The kinases RIPK1 and RIPK3, central ...

Researchers at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology find that the hippocampus sends signals to the visual cortex to ...