By studying how gene expression patterns changed over time, she identified a population of motor neurons called ... that corresponded to cell surface markers. They observed that while some of these ...

National Institutes of Health researchers have mapped how individual neurons in the primary somatosensory cortex receive ...

Scientists can now watch the mouse brain in action thanks to a new technique that lights up specific populations of neurons as they fire. 1 Because the fluorescent marker responsible is genetically ...

A new process for converting skin cells to neurons directly could make it easier to develop therapies for neurodegenerative disorders.

ALS is a condition that causes the progressive degeneration of motor neurons, leading to a loss ... by a connection with neurofilament levels, a marker of neuronal damage. "This suggests that ...