A major downside of the medical use of marijuana is the drug’s ill effects on working memory, the ability to...
For the first time ever, stem cells from umbilical cords have been converted into other types of cells, which may...
The blood-brain barrier is essential for maintaining the brain’s stable environment — preventing entry of harmful viruses and bacteria and...
Glia cells also regulate learning and memory, new TAU research finds. Glia cells, named for the Greek word for “glue,”...
Team reconstituted stem cells’ “family tree” A Johns Hopkins team has discovered in young adult mice that a lone brain...
The researchers knocked out the Erk gene during peripheral nervous system development in mice. The researchers noticed the neurons of these knock-out mice were largely unaffected, but Schwann cells were "just devastated at every stage of development."
