The Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) in South Korea has developed a fully biodegradable artificial ...

New research from Colorado State University into the ways neurons regulate chemical balance in the brain could provide ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) The human brain processes complex information while consuming merely the power of a dim light bulb. This remarkable efficiency stems from synapses, the connections between brain ...

Scientists have engineered a protein able to record the incoming chemical signals of brain cells (as opposed to just their ...

In Nature Communications, a research team affiliated with UNIST present a fully biodegradable, robust, and energy-efficient ...

Stay up to date on the latest science with Brush Up Summaries. Nerve cells, or neurons, are the basic functional units of the nervous system. Multiple interconnected neurons form a neural circuit and ...

Every movement you make and every memory you form depends on precise communication between neurons. When that communication ...

Interactions of two voltage-gated calcium channels and a pump enable separate control of exocytosis and endocytosis at chemical synapses. Chemical synapses transmit information within the nervous ...

They are part of the brain of almost every animal species, yet they remain usually invisible even under the electron microscope. They are part of the brain of almost every animal species, yet they ...