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

This biochemical signal is received by the next nerve cell, that converts the signal back into electricity.

From Science Daily • Nov. 18, 2024

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

To test the chemical medicinal properties of the four CBN analogs, the team applied them to mouse and human nerve cell cultures.

From Science Daily • Apr. 17, 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