The sea lamprey looks like it’s from another planet, but this ancient creature has a surprising amount in common with humans ...

Your brain gets all the glory while your other nervous system, the Peripheral Nervous System (PNS) toils away in thankless obscurity. What’s the PNS? Oh, merely the neurons that live outside of your ...

For transient pins and needles sensations, Shepherd explained that the main culprits for the prickling feeling are large-diameter axons that respond to light, non-painful pressure. These nerves are ...

Your peripheral nervous system (PNS) is crucial to navigating daily life. It lets you walk, controls your eye movements, and rings your brain’s alarms when you step on a Lego brick. Yet researchers ...

A recent scientific study co-authored by an Estonian researcher Indrek Koppel (Tallinn University of Technology) showed how genomic DNA repeat sequences that were previously considered useless play an ...

ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hesperos, a leader in recreating human biology with its’ Human-on-a-Chip ® platform, has announced a breakthrough development of a human induced pluripotent stem cell ...