Biologists have long treated cell membranes as passive barriers, thin skins that separate the chemistry of life from the ...

A new study from Bar-Ilan University shows that one of sleep's core functions originated hundreds of millions of years ago in ...

A new study shows that the human brain stores what we remember and the context in which it happens using different neurons.

A new study reveals that nerve cells receive periodic infusions of mitochondria from neighboring cells — and this may point ...

When a house catches on fire, we assume that a smoke alarm inside will serve one purpose and one purpose only: warn the ...

First discovered in the 1950s, NGF is now known to direct the growth, maintenance, proliferation and preservation of neurons ...