A team of researchers discover how the stentor, an organism made of a single, gigantic cell, learns without a brain.

The single-celled Stentor coeruleus learns through CaMKII-driven protein modification, mirroring mechanisms found in the human brain.

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The rapid advancement of spatial and single-cell omics technologies has revolutionized molecular biosciences by enabling high-resolution profiling of gene ...

The communication network in the developing brain builds when neurons partner up to form contact points called synapses, allowing signals to pass from one cell to another. At the same time, a web of ...

Much more difficult is learning to connect different types of stimuli or events, and predicting that one is linked to another. Such associative learning was most famously demonstrated when Ivan Pavlov ...

A cellular-resolution map of prenatal brain development in Down syndrome reveals disrupted neuron production timing and altered cell types.

The communication network in the developing brain builds when neurons partner up to form contact points called synapses, ...

A tiny strip of printed nanomaterials fired an electrical spike, and a living mouse brain cell answered back. That exchange, ...