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.

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 ...

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 ...

Pandora Dewan is a Senior Science Reporter at Newsweek based in London, UK. Her focus is reporting on science, health and technology. Pandora joined Newsweek in 2022 and previously worked as the ...