Nerve cells are not just nerve cells. Depending on how finely we distinguish, there are several hundred to several thousand ...

Scientists have successfully grown over 400 different types of nerve cells from stem cells in the lab—a groundbreaking step ...

The synapse (illustrated) is the gap between the outgoing wire, or axon, of one nerve cell and the receiving wire, or dendrite, of the next. Nerve cells send chemical messages across these gaps.

All of the nerve cells — and virtually every connection between them — in a larval fruit fly brain have now been mapped, researchers report in the March 10 Science. It’s the most complex ...

In each hippocampus’s CA3 area, humans have about 1.7 million nerve cells called pyramidal cells. This subregion is thought to be the most internally connected part of the brain in mammals ...