Using this model, the researchers proved that the ... study for the first time how hepatitis E viruses affect nerve cells. "We take human kidney cells that are excreted in the urine and reprogram ...

Nerve cells have amazing strategies to save energy and still perform the most important of their tasks. Researchers from the ...

Discover how a revolutionary 3D Blood-Brain Barrier model advances the understanding of neurodegenerative diseases and drug ...

Parkinson’s disease is a progressive degenerative disease resulting in the loss of nerve cells in the brain. Samples from human patients are difficult to obtain and animal models may not faithfully ...

Other iPSC-based models affecting neural crest lineages include Schwann cell and melanocyte-related disorders, including our effort to model human melanoma in pluripotent ... features in ...

A new electrical stimulation therapy for spinal muscle atrophy (SMA) has shown promise in reactivating motor neurons and ...

An inspection of 3,369,219 cells extracted from 105 regions of autopsied human brains defined 461 cell types by their differing patterns of gene usage and where in the brain the cells came from.

New research published in Science Signaling employs model systems and human nerve cells to show the mechanisms by which manganese inflicts damage to the central nervous system. The study also ...

Bart De Strooper, and Dr. Sriram Balusu demonstrates they can indeed prevent loss of nerve cells in a mouse model of ... triggers for such necroptosis in human nerve cells transplanted into ...