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Scientists from the University of California at Los Angeles - UCLA discovered that dendrites (shown here in green) are not just passive conduits for electrical currents between nerve cells. Photo: Shelley Halpain / UC San Diego

The brain is 10 times more active than previously thought

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Brain slice of a genetically modified mouse. Neurons that express the CRFR1 receptor appear in green, and neurons that express the neurotransmitter CRF appear in red. The image was taken with a fluorescence microscope. Source: from the article.

Law of conservation of pressure

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Neurons (dark green) and glial cells (yellow-green). Illustration: shutterstock

The neural networks reach a consensus

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Turning blood cells into nerve cells. Figure: Jong-Hee Lee and colleagues, CELL journal

A new method for turning blood cells into nerve cells may make cells available to cure diseases such as Alzheimer's

Bacteria attack nerve cells. Illustration shutterstock

When normal proteins go wrong / Tara Hal

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autism. Illustration: shutterstock

Neural connections that may play a role in autism have been discovered

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Brain functions. Illustration: shutterstock

The New Age of the Mind / Raphael Yost and George M. Church

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Technion researchers have developed a 'brain in vitro' system that allows viewing the activity of nerve cells in XNUMXD

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Normal nerve cells (on the left) undergo pruning, while in nerve cells in which the KIF2A gene is damaged the pruning process does not take place

form nerves

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genetics. Illustration: shutterstock

Surprising variation between the genomes of individual neurons in the same brain

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Prof. Mike Feinzylver and Dr. Ida Rischel. Transportation

size matters (in cell)

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A drawing by Dr. Rita Green-Licht, depicting yeast cells mating via appendages, published on the cover of the scientific journal Cell Reports

Yeast cells: the union

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