A new study using mouse models and multi-omics analysis has traced a specific nerve pathway through which prenatal stress ...

A tickly itch, a painful scratch, or the feeling of a refreshing breeze—the skin is teaming with nerve endings that drive these sensations. Scientists are getting into the epidermis to explore how ...

Researchers have used new imaging techniques to explore the function and structures of the neuro-cutaneous unit – the connection between the nervous system and the skin. The findings, published today ...

Could wounded skin someday regrow perfectly without scars? A new study by Harvard stem cell biologists published in Cell ...

Nerve cells are not just nerve cells. Depending on how finely we distinguish, there are several hundred to several thousand different types of nerve cell in the human brain according to the latest ...

In a new study, neuroscience researchers at The Ohio State University have discovered a special type of human white blood cell that has the potential to regrow nerve fibers. The study findings, ...