nerve cell
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The team engineered a peptide fragment that locks alpha-synuclein into its healthy shape, blocking its conversion into the toxic clumps that cause nerve cell death.
From Science Daily • Oct. 8, 2025
When the electrical signal reaches the end of one nerve cell it is converted into a biochemical signal, in the form of calcium.
From Science Daily • Nov. 18, 2024
The injured organoids showed some of the same features seen in TBI patients, including nerve cell death and pathological changes in tau proteins, as well as in a protein called TDP-43.
From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2024
In others, different precursors give rise to the same nerve cell type.
From Science Daily • Mar. 26, 2024
They can specify how a nerve cell communicates with another nerve cell and thus become the arbiters of normal cognition and neural development.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
