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 ...

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

To measure reception of a tactile signal from a Merkel cell, the UAB researchers achieved patch-clamp recordings at a heminode — an accessible spot for a patch-clamp on the neurite between the Merkel ...