Neurons may get all the glory, but they would be nothing without glial cells. While brain cells do the ... may have implications for treating diseases caused by defective cilia, such as polycystic ...

Scientists have uncovered a key mechanism in jellyfish embryos that provides new insights into how the body plan of these ...

Researchers have discovered that a single molecule, Wnt3, coordinates a two-step process of cell polarity orientation that ...

Many animals show signs of high intelligence, including strong memory, self-awareness and communication skills.

Researchers have discovered a new type of neuron that plays a fundamental role in recognition memory -- how the brain registers the difference between new and familiar objects and forms long-term ...

Humans evolved late in Earth history. While this timing inspired the conclusion that humanlike life is a cosmic improbability ...

Part of the problem is the vague definition of “concept” itself — no one can say whether we have concept cells for experiences such as emotions, for example. One intriguing possibility is that the ...

migrate in humans and not just in cell and animal models. “My first thought was that this sounds crazy, like science fiction. But they seem to have the data for it,” says Holden Maecker ...

These cells survived and multiplied in culture, growing robustly. They continued to do so for weeks ... effective ways to grow animal and human cells, and now we have thousands of cell lines ...