The central nervous system consists of the brain and spinal cord. The central nervous ... The brain is the most complex organ in the human body; the cerebral cortex (the outermost part of the ...

Previous attempts to create a notochord from human stem cells have failed because ... and helps dictate where cells should build out the spine and nervous system. This is the first stem cell ...

Your spinal cord is a glistening white bundle of nerves, which runs from your brain down a canal in your backbone. It's roughly 40cm long and about as wide as your thumb for most of its length.

Afterwards, nerve tissue in the spine does not regrow back properly ... glutamate and TNFa together may be viable strategy for therapeutic intervention after human spinal cord injury. "The time course ...

Stimulating nerves on the spinal cord could help people ... just around thoracic segment 11 in the human spine. That spot had the biggest effect on the man’s blood pressure.

There are over 100 trillion neural connections in the average human brain ... Along with the spinal cord, the bone-clad parts of our nervous system are naturally called the central nervous ...

This development offers a new window into the early stages of human development and the ... s main axis and guiding the ...

Zhenan Bao (Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, US) has succeeded in recovering muscle movements in a model of paralyzed mice through organic artificial nerves. The result was ...