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PHILADELPHIA – Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have demonstrated that living human nerve cells can be engineered into a network that could one day be used for ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Design by Rumaisa Wajahath. The team of engineers and biologists aimed to develop an organoid that ...

Scientists have re-created a pain pathway in the brain by growing four key clusters of human nerve cells in a dish. This laboratory model could be used to help explain certain pain syndromes, and ...

The brain is by far our most complex organ, with its billions upon billions of neurons that talk to each other through a vast network of synaptic connections. But there are simpler ways we can improve ...

Human Nervous System Trivia is a great app with a slightly misleading name. Although the app contains facts about the nervous system that would come in handy during a trivia night, it actually serves ...