UVA Makes Surprising Discovery About Neurons, Our Irreplaceable Nerve Cells
By questioning accepted scientific belief, School of Medicine researchers have discovered that these strange cells are even stranger than previously realized.
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Zebrafish Lab Provides Insights Into Diseases of the Nervous System
An aquarium fish may help researchers solve such neurological diseases as muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, autism and others.
Researchers Discover How Neurons Tell Each Other to Die Under Trauma, Disease
A major contributor to most neurological diseases is the degeneration of a wire-like part of nerve cells called an axon, which electrically transmits information from one neuron to another.
