Resistant to most antifungal drugs, the yeast Candidozyma auris is spreading globally and has caused recent outbreaks in US ...

Small cell lung cancer cells that metastasize to the brain cozy up to neurons and form working electrical connections, called ...

The most common type of brain tumor in children, pilocytic astrocytoma (PA), accounts for about 15% of all pediatric brain ...

Imagine being able to flip a light switch to control disease pathways inside a living cell. A team of visionary researchers ...

New research from WashU Medicine reveals how normal electrical signals from neurons may be co-opted by certain pediatric brain tumors to boost their own growth, suggesting novel pathways for treatment ...

Cells use various signaling molecules to regulate the nervous, immune, and vascular systems. Among these, nitric oxide (NO) and ammonia (NH₃) play important roles, but their chemical instability and ...

Cerebral blood delivery depends on mechanisms such as electrical signaling, which propagates through capillary networks to upstream arterioles to deliver blood, and calcium signaling, which fine-tunes ...

When pain signals are passed along the nervous system, proteins called calcium channels play a key role. Researchers at Linköping University, Sweden, have now pinpointed the exact location of a ...