Machine learning with whole-cell patch-clamp and local field potential recordings reveals that synaptic responses from five mossy cells, despite their limited population, can significantly reconstruct ...

ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a rare condition that destroys nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord that are ...

The National Breast Cancer Foundation estimates 1 in 39 women diagnosed with breast cancer will die, about 2.5%. It’s an overall decline of 44% from 1989. When caught at its earliest stages, the ...

For millennia, aging has been viewed as an immutable, inevitable decline. However, a scientific revolution is underway, ...

A recent study conducted by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai provides one of the most thorough insights to date ...

Abstract: Neuron tracing (reconstruction) is an important step toward understanding the functionality of neuronal networks. Neuron termination points and branch points, collectively called critical ...

Discover Posedla's Joyseat, the world's first fully custom 3D printed bike saddle designed for optimal comfort and ...

The field of tissue engineering aims to replicate the structure and function of real biological tissues. This engineered tissue has potential applications in disease modeling, drug discovery, and ...

The National Institutes of Health has more on spinal cord injuries. In the future, 3D printing technology might help people regrow damaged spinal cord tissue.

Researchers at the University of Calgary studying a lethal lung disease called pulmonary fibrosis have found that neurons known to help detect pain are also critical for reducing harmful lung ...

Now, researchers have developed a biomedical structure that has given impressive functional recovery to lab rats with severed spinal cords. The team detailed their success in a study published in the ...