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Neurons
Neurons: A nerve cell that receives and sends electrical signals over long distances within the body. A neuron receives electrical input signals from sensory cells (called sensory neurons) and from other neurons. The neuron sends electrical output signals to muscle neurons (called motoneurons or motor neurons) and to other neurons. A neuron that simply signals another neuron is called an interneuron.
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NOV 22, 2016Health & Medicine
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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) has been the focus of mental health professionals and researchers for quite some t ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimOCT 24, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
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Old experiments have led to the notion that frogs boiled gradually will not try to escape, while a sudden dunk in hot wa ...Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 19, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
In Brazil, it’s known as “Pisadeira,” a creature that lurks on rooftops at night, and then bears down ...OCT 17, 2016Immunology
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Formaldehyde is a very common chemical in our natural and indoor environments. It’s often used in the manufacture ...Written By: Carmen Leitch
NOV 22, 2016
Health & Medicine
JUPITER, FL – November 22, 2016 – Anyone who has drifted into a fuzzy-headed stupor after a large holiday me
...
Written By:
The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)
NOV 20, 2016
Microbiology
Using a special type of microscopy, researchers were able to capture changes in the nucleus of nerve cells as they under
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 17, 2016
Cannabis Sciences
Dude…where’s my memory? It sounds funny, but new research on the effects of cannabinoids on the brai
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
NOV 16, 2016
Microbiology
New research done in mice has indicated that the stress of a mother can result in cognitive defects and anxiety in offsp
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 15, 2016
Neuroscience
JUPITER, FL – November 15, 2016 – Autism is an agonizing puzzle, a complex mixture of genetic and environmen
...
Written By:
The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)
NOV 14, 2016
Videos
Of course there are reasons for some of our itches. There are the bug bites and the poison ivies and the chicken pox and
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
NOV 14, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
New work reported in Developmental Cell by researchers at Johns Hopkins University has demonstrated that a protein known
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 13, 2016
Plants & Animals
For the most part, any snake bite is a cause for worry because many people simply don’t know what they’re de
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 10, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Living organisms, from plants to fungi to animals, have a circadian rhythm – a 24 hour cycle of physiological even
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 10, 2016
Neuroscience
When a person has lost sensation in a part of the body, whether to an accident or disease, they don’t just lose mo
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
NOV 07, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
New neurons in the brain of adult rodents are regulated by the blood vessels that are associated with them. Research tha
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 07, 2016
Neuroscience
The brain is a marvelous organ that can do some pretty amazing things. Just running the body and processing all the inpu
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
OCT 31, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Scientists have described a new kind of probe that improves investigators’ abilities to monitor the interactions o
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 27, 2016
Health & Medicine
JUPITER, FL – October 26, 2016 – In a remarkable “two for one” discovery, scientists from the Fl
...
Written By:
The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)
OCT 26, 2016
Neuroscience
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) has been the focus of mental health professionals and researchers for quite some t
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
OCT 24, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
For people that suffer from diseases with no treatments, the outlook can be bleak. One such illness is Charcot-Marie-Too
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 23, 2016
Plants & Animals
Lacking any ears like many other spider species, jumping spiders were once thought only to be able to feel vibrations fr
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 22, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Old experiments have led to the notion that frogs boiled gradually will not try to escape, while a sudden dunk in hot wa
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 19, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
In Brazil, it’s known as “Pisadeira,” a creature that lurks on rooftops at night, and then bears down
...
OCT 17, 2016
Immunology
Image Credit: CDC JUPITER, FL – October 17, 2016 – In a study that could one day help eliminate the tragic b
...
Written By:
The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)
OCT 11, 2016
Genetics & Genomics
When faced with the choice of a hamburger and fries or a piece of strawberry shortcake, which would you choose? We all h
...
Written By:
Jennifer Ellis
OCT 09, 2016
Microbiology
The gut may play a role in protecting us from Parkinson’s disease, researchers at the University of Iowa (UI) have
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 07, 2016
Videos
Even as it's protected inside a thick skull, the brain remains a fragile organ. When we bump our heads or otherwise sust
...
OCT 06, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Formaldehyde is a very common chemical in our natural and indoor environments. It’s often used in the manufacture
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch