Researchers identified 16 distinct types of nerve cells involved in human touch and compared them with those in mice and ...

B cells normally can’t cross from your blood into your brain or spinal cord. If you have MS, some B cells enter your brain and ... and plays a part in slowing down nerve damage.

No less than 16 different types of nerve cells have been identified by scientists in a new ... compared to mice is probably ...

Liver cells. Brain cells. Skin, bone, and nerve. The dream is to launch ... in the U.S. who would like to move into embryonic stem cell work but who won't because of the political uncertainties ...

Alzheimer’s disease is characterized by a progressive loss of nerve cells leading to a decline in memory and cognition. A team of researchers at KU Leuven and VIB explored the molecular sequence of ...

We're all very complex organisms, made up of lots of different types of cells carrying out different jobs in our bodies; such as nerve cells ... them growing into we don't want.

Last year, Balusu and his colleagues announced they had mapped triggers for such necroptosis in human nerve cells transplanted into Alzheimer’s affected mouse brains. To better understand the ...

In much the same way that doors and windows allow necessities to enter the house, various proteins that span the cell membrane permit specific molecules into the ... cells don't work quite like ...

For example, biochemical reactions in a cell's mitochondria transfer energy from fatty acids and pyruvate molecules into an energy-rich ... certain macromolecules to enter and leave the nucleus ...

Plant cells have chloroplasts while animal cells don’t. Plant cells need chloroplasts so that they can convert energy from ...

In fact, as one of us (Robert Andrew Robergs) has long argued, cells ... enter into the cells. That causes the pressure inside and between muscle cells to increase. This pressure, combined with the ...