Looking One Cell at a Time in the Brain to Better Understand Pain, Learning, Memory
Tuesday, August 21, 2012 - 09:01
in Biology & Nature
Scientists are developing profiles of the contents of individual brain cells in a search for the root causes of chronic pain, memory loss and other maladies that affect millions of people. They described the latest results of a one-by-one exploration of selected cells or "neurons" from among the millions present in an animal's brain at the 244th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society.