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The trio were honored "for their discovery of a molecular switch for nerve cells," the Nobel Assembly said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

The trio won the prize for their work on optogenetics and discoveries on how nerve cells shape memories, feelings and behaviors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

But just months after this career highlight, symptoms Dan thought were sciatic nerve pain and wear and tear were revealed to be benign tumours in his spine, which needed to be operated on immediately.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Eventually, MS can cause permanent damage to the nerve fibers, and symptoms vary from person to person, depending on the location and severity of the damage in the nervous system.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

She opened her mouth and closed it several times, but kept losing her nerve.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland

Her mother, Mygal, checks the news and eats a biscuit herself to calm her nerves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

Signals can travel between the gut and brain through immune activity, hormones, nerves, and chemical compounds produced by microbes.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

Multiple sclerosis, or MS, is a disease that causes the protective covering of nerves to breakdown, which can lead to numbness, weakness, trouble walking, vision changes and other symptoms, per the Mayo Clinic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

The U.S. dollar was more or less flat as traders’ inflation nerves were eased by the Fed policy statement and oil’s slippage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

He took a deep breath to calm his nerves.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young

“He can get a little nerved up in the paddock,” said Shirreffs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2021

Then followed a few scruffy years on local TV, including his celebrated stint as a smart-aleck weatherman, before he nerved himself to head to Los Angeles in 1975.

From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2017

Less a teen-age Rangerphile than an arachnophobe encountering a tarantula, I nerved myself to walk over to where Lindsay sat and confronted him, boy to man.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 19, 2015

For weeks Washington had been on the alert for the Vinson report, nerved itself this week to hear the report go off, dynamiting the profiteers of World War II.

From Time Magazine Archive

This means that what is probable changes over time; but Locke never nerved himself up to take the further step of saying that knowledge itself changes over time.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

As the story starts, the singer is nerving herself to ask a doctor whether or not she has a cancer.

From Time Magazine Archive

Amateur championships nerving himself up to proper pitch.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week, in the salty little city of Bath, Me., the moment lor which Mrs. Vanderbilt had been nerving herself finally arrived.

From Time Magazine Archive

She stood outside nerving herself for the ordeal, knowing her desk would be the only one without flowers.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

Her trembling heart had forgotten for the moment all she had been braving her heart, and nerving her mind to tell him.

From It May Be True, Vol. III (of III) by Mrs. Henry Wood