Millisecond ‘kiss and run’ exchange – captured in a China lab on the world’s first camera equipped to do it – solves a 50-year-old debate.
Nervous system functions, from motion to perception to cognition, depend on the active zones of neural circuit connections, ...
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50-year mystery solved as China’s nanotech camera captures neurons ‘kissing’
As summarized in Science, the study describes a unified “kiss-shrink-run” mechanism of synaptic transmission. This model ...
September 21, 2025, marked the 32nd World Alzheimer’s Day. Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the primary cause of dementia. Often ...
The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) has elected Mohammed K. Ali, MD, MSc, Stephen F. Traynelis, PhD, Wanda Barfield, MD, MPH, and Ravi Thadhani ...
A new color-changing material can remember and forget like a brain cell, creating self-erasing images that hide information ...
A novel connectomics approach reveals synaptic connectivity differences between narrowly and broadly tuned olfactory glomeruli in Drosophila melanogaster, providing new insights into glomerular ...
Israeli Scientists Discover Way To Speed Up Nerve Signals, Offering Hope for Treating Brain Diseases
Researchers at Tel Aviv University have uncovered a biological process that increases the production of myelin—the fatty ...
When improperly folded proteins build up in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), cells become stressed and conditions such as type 2 diabetes, neurodegenerative disorders, and cancers can develop. In a ...
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