SHENZHEN -- Chinese scientists have, for the first time, confirmed the existence of microglia in the peripheral nervous ...

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Researchers have recreated the human ascending sensory pathway in a lab dish, using organoids that model the key brain and ...

Diseases of the nervous system refer to disorders that affect any part of the central nervous system (brain, spinal cord or cranial nerves) or peripheral nervous system. Large-scale analyses of ...

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Immediate use for the newly developed assembloids could include studying neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism.

Scientists develop lab-grown model of the human sensory pathway to investigate how pain signals are transmitted to the brain.