New studies show that astrocytes, long thought to be support cells in the brain, are crucial intermediaries for relaying messages to neurons.

A lab-designed molecule developed and extensively studied by scientists with Virginia Tech's Fralin Biomedical Research ...

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Researchers identified some 3,300 types of brain cells, an order of magnitude more than was previously known, and have only a dim notion of what most of them do. By Carl Zimmer An international ...

Hundreds of neuroscientists across the world recently characterized more than 3,000 human brain cell types as part of the National Institute of Health’s BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Network ...

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have upended the decades-old dogma of how connections ...

A new type of brain cell, called a glutamatergic astrocyte, has been discovered. It could explain how a variety of neurodegenerative conditions, such as Parkinson’s, develop. Brain cells can ...

While most of the brain’s neurons are thought to be created before birth, an explosion in neural connections ... During neurogenesis, stem cells become non-specialized neural progenitor cells ...