A technology aims to be a "wearable" device for neurons, wrapping around individual nerve fibers to better study and treat ...

Much like the insulation around the wires in electrical systems, glial cells form a membraneous sheath surrounding axons called myelin, thereby insulating the axon. This myelination, as it is ...

The human brain is white and gray in color because it makes its very own cholesterol. Neurosteroids offer exciting novel ...

Connections between neurons are called axons—long structures akin to electrical wires—and covering them is a coating ("sheath") made of myelin, a white tissue made of lipids. Comprised of up ...

"We proposed that, during evolution, the emergence of myelin coincided with the loss of lipid droplets in axon-associated ...

Another key process in neuronal development that begins before birth is myelination, in which proteins form layers called myelin sheaths around a neuron’s outward extension (axon). Myelin ...

A long fibre (axon) which is insulated by a fatty (myelin) sheath. They are long so they can carry messages up and down the body. Tiny branches (dendrons) which branch further as dendrites at each ...

Scientists have identified a natural compound that halts the process involved in the progression of certain forms of cancer ...

Myelin sheaths collapsed and the number of mitochondria was reduced in nerve fibers at 1,440 hours after implanting 29.6 MBq iodine-125 seeds. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible ...

On this week’s program, Dr. Joe Sirven examines advancements in multiple sclerosis research and common sleep disorders in ...