BBB is already working with ethicists and regulatory experts to ensure its technology is developed responsibly.

Observing the activity of an individual brain cell in humans for the first time, scientists have found that neurons can ...

Until now, skin cells have been viewed as barriers that can respond to electric stimuli. Turns out, they also generate ...

Researchers devised a process to convert a skin cell directly into a neuron, eliminating the need to generate induced ...

Cortical Labs, an Australia-based tech company, has recently unveiled the CL1, a 'biological' computer powered by living ...

This would allow researchers to do medical experiments on the computer rather than on a live cell ... because "each cell type — be it a neuron, a muscle cell or a skin cell — expresses ...

There are two types of removal: Re-uptake – the neurotransmitter is reabsorbed back into the presynaptic neuron and restored inside a vesicle ready to be used again. For example, noradrenaline.

Scientists have developed a new kind of laser-based artificial neuron that mimics a biological nerve cell. This artificial neuron could boost high-speed computing and artificial intelligence (AI ...

The condition is usually caused by mutations in a gene called SMN1, which contains instructions for how to make a protein called survival motor neuron (SMN) protein.This protein is critical for ...

Currently, cryopreservation is the only method that allows for long-term storage of live cells and tissues ... liquid nitrogen for shipments. As the cell therapy industry continues to advance ...

A two-and-a-half-year-old girl shows no signs of a rare genetic disorder, after becoming the first person to be treated for the motor-neuron condition while in the womb. The child’s mother took ...