A population of neurons that engages mechanisms of the innate immune system during memory formation has been uncovered in mice. Surprisingly, inflammatory signalling might pave the way for long-term ...
Optogenetics, a groundbreaking technique, enables researchers to control specific neurons using light, providing insights into brain functions. The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was ...
A new review highlights how the nuclear scaffold protein LaminB acts as a stress-integration gatekeeper in neurons, with ...
Goodfire researcher Nick Cammarata argues nearly 90% of neurons in models like Qwen3-32B have one clear role, up from about 2 ...
The brain is unbelievably complicated, which is both daunting and fascinating for neuroscientists like me. In the space of a cubic millimeter – about the size of a single poppy seed – there are tens ...
A new PLOS Biology essay proposes that a neuron's capacity to maintain its subtype-defining gene-regulatory machinery may set ...
Singapore's first biologically integrated server rack began operating today at the National University of Singapore's Life Sciences Institute, running on 16 million living human neurons distributed ...
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The human brain's billions of neurons represent a menagerie of cells that are among both the most highly specialized and variable ones in our bodies. Neurons convert electrical signals to chemical ...
From Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s hand came branches and whorls, spines and webs. Now-famous drawings by the neuroanatomist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries showed, for the first time, the ...