A growing body of research suggests astrocytes, star-shaped brain cells once dismissed as support players, may lead the way ...

Chloride ions, best known for helping cells maintain fluid balance and electrical stability, may also play a more direct role ...

The brain is the body's command center, and neurons are the workhorses that carry out its commands. They transmit signals ...

In the past several years, Rockefeller University's Kivanç Birsoy and his team in the Laboratory of Metabolic Regulation and ...