Recently, we’ve watched the biotech industry boom with exciting updates about new projects and technologies. From the unveiling of an innovative hydrogel for neuronal cell culture to advancing ...

With fresh focus on New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) to move away from animal models in biosciences and preclinical ...

A robust, image-based neurotoxicity assay helps scientists streamline subcellular neuronal analysis with live-cell dyes and high-throughput automated microscopy. Neuronal cell culture models allow ...

The human brain develops over decades, making this process notoriously difficult to model in a dish. Now, scientists have taken a step toward this goal. As described in preprint posted October 2 on ...

Neurons, the uber-connected nerve cells that act as a main switchboard for the brain, are central to some incredibly complicated processes. They make it possible to think, walk, speak, and breathe.

To survive in ever-changing conditions in the body, cancer cells often need to alter their metabolism. 1 This ability to adapt is especially critical for their spread to other parts of the body. “This ...

An international research team has shown that lung cancer cells can form functional synapses with neurons, effectively hijacking the body's neural circuits to grow faster. The finding reveals a ...

Neurons exposed to chronic iron overload do not simply die on contact. Instead, they enter a weakened, primed state that ...

Nerve cells are not just nerve cells. Depending on how finely we distinguish, there are several hundred to several thousand different types of nerve cells in the human brain, according to the latest ...

An international research team has shown that lung cancer cells can form functional synapses with neurons, effectively hijacking the body’s neural circuits to grow faster. The finding reveals a ...