Sensory neurons that respond to temperature, touch and pain have ways of adapting to repeated stimuli that can change how a ...

Now, using a novel system developed at Janelia, researchers led by the Dudman Lab found that a part of the basal ganglia called the striatum is not involved in action selection as previously thought.

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New findings question assumptions of cancer formation in individuals with the cancer-predisposition syndrome, ...

Despite what was previously thought, new research has shown that genetic changes alone cannot explain why and where tumors grow in those with genetic condition neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF-1).

Despite what was previously thought, new research has shown that genetic changes alone cannot explain why and where tumors ...

Interrupting signals exchanged between tumors and the nervous system could become a critical pillar of cancer care ...

the potential of hPSC-derived ENS progenitors to repopulate and increase functional responses in human HSCR patient colonic tissue. Hirschsprung disease (HSCR) is a devastating condition characterised ...

1–7 In particular, an association between some of the connective-tissue diseases and Hashimoto's thyroiditis (lymphadenoid goiter) has recently seemed likely. 6,8,9 Many reports of this ...

In this article, we discuss the structure and function of cardiac muscle tissue. We also cover medical ... response to electrical impulses from the nervous system. Pacemaker cells generate ...