The processing of optical information in the retina of the eye, where the light-sensitive photoreceptors and the first nerve cells are located, is one of the most energy-intensive processes in the ...

A nerve cell resembles a vast tree with branches that communicate with thousands of other cells. To function, it depends on a ...

DZNE researchers have uncovered a mechanism that determines why a neuron usually forms a single, long extension called an ...

Nerve cells are not just nerve cells. Depending on how finely we distinguish, there are several hundred to several thousand different types of nerve cell in the human brain according to the latest ...

Nerve cells have amazing strategies to save energy and still perform the most important of their tasks. Researchers from the University Hospital Bonn (UKB) and the University of Bonn as well as the ...

Scientists from Göttingen and Bochum find evidence for a new mechanism, with which our nerve cells are able to filter signals and transfer them selectively It is generally known, that nerve cells ...

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, or ALS, received widespread awareness in the summer of 2014 thanks to an Ice Bucket Challenge. Millions of people participated in the challenge, drenching themselves in ...

Just weeks after an Iranian missile attack destroyed eight laboratories at the Weizmann Institute of Science, scientists at the institute say they have discovered hundreds of molecules that help nerve ...

Hepatitis E viruses (HEV) typically cause liver infections. They can, however, also infect other organs and cause neurological disorders. Little is yet known about how this process works. A research ...