The tail enables the sperm to swim. The nerve cell is extended, so that nerves can run to and from different parts of the body to the central nervous system. The cell has extensions and branches ...

The particular episode in the scientific revolution described here — the abandonment of the hypothesis of 'animal spirits' to explain nerve function — not only reveals how some familiar ...

Scientists have mapped every single nerve cell of an adult fruit ... It is the first time a wiring diagram has been created ...