And, of course, each arm is studded with suckers, all ... nervous systems. Octopuses diverged from vertebrates many million years ago and have a very different body plan, so for nervous system ...

An international team of scientists has uncovered a fascinating piece of the evolutionary puzzle: how the ventral nerve cord, a key component of the central nervous system, evolved in ecdysozoan ...

KOCHI: The ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) has successfully decoded the gene expression pattern of ...

All neurons have a cell body ... of the axons and dendrites can vary. The human nervous system is defined as two parts. They are the central nervous system (CNS) and the peripheral nervous ...

Hodological patterning refers to developmental mechanisms that link the location of neurons in the brain or spinal cord to specific axonal trajectories that direct connectivity to synaptic targets ...

From the perspective of viruses spread by insects, or arboviruses, making the evolutionary leap from insects to humans is a tough battle. Viruses cannot replicate very well in humans, which means ...

Neurons may get all ... the nervous system, it's the glia that provide nutrients, clean up waste, and protect neurons from harm. A map of deadly infectious diseases known to attack the central ...

Researchers used a series of X-rays to 3D-scan the skull, collected in remote British Columbia nearly 80 years ago. It is part of an effort to digitally catalogue the university museums' archive.