cell & molecular biology, neuroscience

The scientific community said goodbye to Sydney Brenner, Paul Greengard, Patricia Bath, and a number of other leading researchers this year.

This year’s most beautiful illustrations covered topics including the molecular underpinnings of Parkinson’s disease and strategies for tracking marine organisms around the world’s oceans.

The Stanford University professor helped develop a technique to grow brain organoids from induced pluripotent stem cells.

A major sensory neuron in roundworms distinguishes proprioception from harmful touch by sending out local or whole-cell signals, respectively.

Studies of the rosette-like structure can reveal clues to brain recovery after injury.

A new study suggests that growing in a stressful environment prevents “brains-in-a-dish” from growing in the same way as their in vivo counterparts.

The animals showed changes in both slow wave and rapid eye movement sleep.

New methods of visualizing tissue are presented at the Society for Neuroscience meeting.

Suppressing the natural age-related increase in neuronal excitation lengthens the lives of worms, and there are indications that the same may be true for mice and humans.

In brain samples from people with Alzheimer’s disease, the protein aggregates more strongly bound proteins involved in processing RNA, the same study finds.

Contaminants in the atmosphere appear to have harmful effects on neurodevelopment and cognitive function.

Meet some of the people featured in the October 2019 issue of The Scientist.

Damage to the lysosome, the organelle that removes excess proteins, lipids, and other materials, might be at the root of the disease.

Three studies show that tumor cells can behave like neurons.

Researchers identify changes to a pain receptor and to an ion channel that appear to enable the rodents to colonize otherwise inhospitable burrows.

Mutations within the MS4A gene cluster have been linked to changes in protein levels that affect disease risk.

The glia seem to make up part of a newly described sensory organ, the discoverers suggest.

The introduced cells engrafted in the nose, became olfactory sensory neurons, and sent axons to the animals’ brains.