A study capturing brain activity in dying patients has revealed a sudden burst of energy moments after death. The phenomenon, ...

Quantum computers process multiple possibilities at once, unlike traditional computers. Quantum properties like entanglement ...

Our biceps and our brain cells may have more in common ... 3D electron microscopy images of fruit fly neurons. The ...

Like other eukaryotic cells, neurons have a cytoskeleton that consists of three main polymers: microtubules (green), intermediate filaments (purple) and actin filaments (red). Microtubules emanate ...

In neurons, microtubules are essential for generating the axonal and dendritic extensions that carry electrical impulses. In most cells, these cylindrical polymers of tubulin grow from centrosomes, ...

The grad students were given a brain scooped out of a severed skull. They put the organ in a plastic bag, placed it in an ice-filled cooler to keep it fresh and raced back to Waltham. Cow neurons are ...

Neurons in the fly can radically remold their cytoskeleton to rebuild a severed axon -- a finding that might provide clues to how neurons recover from injury, researchers reported yesterday at the ...

SAST and syntrophin were highly associated with purified microtubules ... SAST localization in the brain and testes. To determine whether SAST is expressed in CNS neurons, we examined primary ...

Tau is a microtubule-associated protein that helps to stabilize the structure of neurons, specifically by supporting microtubules ... and accumulates in the brain, this protein has been found ...

Tau proteins ordinarily work to stabilize a cell's scaffolding structure of microtubules ... In these mouse brain cells, fewer tangled Tau proteins were shuttled into the neurons.

Quantum mechanics as we know it today requires carefully controlled, ultra-cold environments—nothing like the warm, constantly firing neurons going off in a human brain. While microtubules exist ...