From the very moment an egg is fertilized, life begins with a remarkable process: cells start dividing and replicating to ...

Axons can be shaped like strings of pearls, research in mice and people show. How that shape may influence brain signaling is not yet clear.

Axons in brain cells resemble a string of pearls rather than smooth tubes, according to Johns Hopkins researchers. This discovery, aided by advanced imaging and modeling, reveals how physical and ...

In a provocative new study, scientists challenge a fundamental tenet in neuroscience about the shape of axons -- the long, ...

In a study, scientists challenge a fundamental tenet in neuroscience about the shape of axons -- the long, thin filaments radiating from nerve cells that transmit electrical signals from cell to cell ...

New research challenges traditional views on axon structure, presenting a "pearls-on-a-string" model where action potential ...

In a provocative new study, scientists challenge a fundamental tenet in neuroscience about the shape of axons -- the long, ...

“Understanding the structure of axons is important for understanding brain cell signaling,” says Shigeki Watanabe ... s and other neurodegenerative diseases due to the loss of membrane and skeletal ...

Membrane biophysics is the study of the physical ... and the effect they have on paracellular transport and phenomena relating to cell shape. The kinetics of assembly and Ca 2+-dependent ...

Biology textbooks may need a revision, say scientists, who present new evidence that an arm-like structure of mammalian brain cells may be a different shape than scientists have assumed for more than ...

Channels in plant cell walls, called plasmodesmata, provide molecules with a bridge to move between cells, an essential ...