New research reveals that brain cells use a muscle-like signaling mechanism to relay information over long distances.

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Typically, scientists study how the brain communicates with adipose tissue through the sympathetic nervous system and how the adipose tissue replies through circulating chemical signals.

For over half a billion years, evolution has sculpted the nervous systems of bilaterian animals, equipping them with remarkable capabilities to process information, coordinate movements, and respond ...

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Researchers have developed a way of bioprinting tissues that change shape as a result of cell-generated forces, in the same way that it happens in biological tissues during organ development.

The nervous system is the body’s direct communication system. It’s made up of the body’s many nerve cells. These cells work together in a network that sends and receives signals from one ...

Direct invasion of brain tissue is just one way the parasite wreaks havoc on the ... If the worms have invaded the nervous system, steroids should be given as well in order to reduce the inflammatory ...

Market Snapshot Stock-market investors are getting nervous about this bond-market move that’s only happened twice in over 40 years Only twice since the early 1980s has the 10-year yield jumped ...

The American Cancer Society's estimates for soft tissue sarcomas in the United States for 2025 are: About 13,520 new soft tissue sarcomas will be diagnosed (7,600 in males and 5920 in females). About ...