Researcher have uncovered a new cell type in the human brain that fires electrical impulses. The cells are hybrids, part neuron and part glia, and are present in both glioma, a type of brain tumor, ...

Many biological processes are regulated by electricity—from nerve impulses to heartbeats to the movement of molecules in and out of cells. A study by Scripps Research scientists reveals a previously ...

As an embryo grows, there is a continuous stream of communication between cells to form tissues and organs. Cells need to read numerous cues from their environment, and these may be chemical or ...

Inspired by electric rays that generate high voltages through stacked electrocytes, researchers at UNIST have developed a ...

Researchers identified some 3,300 types of brain cells, an order of magnitude more than was previously known, and have only a dim notion of what most of them do. By Carl Zimmer An international team ...

Animal bodies are crackling with electrical signals. Even before development is complete, electric fields guide the movement and arrangement of embryonic cells. 1 In adults, neurons communicate with ...

Yashashree Kulkarni, University of Houston Bill D. Cook Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, is challenging conventional theories of how cells detect electrical fields. The human body is ...

Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute have found that some particularly aggressive lung cancer cells can develop their own electric network, like that seen in the body's nervous system. This ...

Using human hepatoma cells, a model system for studying the liver, Yao exposed batches of the cells to various concentrations of the gene therapy virus particles containing a fluorescent green protein ...