The first stem cell culture method that produces a full model of the early stages of the human central nervous system has been developed by a team of engineers and biologists at the University of ...

That’s one of the reasons that neuroscientists such as Lyons are working to make tardigrades a model organism for studying how neural circuits work — a field of research called systems ...

'For our model, we exploit the special properties of biological information processing in nervous systems,' explained Professor Dr Martin Nawrot, senior author of the study.

The autonomic nervous system is known as the control center for involuntary bodily processes such as the beating of our hearts and our breathing. The fact that this part of the nervous system also ...