“In the neuron where you have such huge distances ... get packed and loaded into RNA transport granules. 12 These transport granules orchestrate the spatiotemporal transport and translation of mRNA ...

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We know Alzheimer's makes these wholesale changes early on, effectively rewiring biological pathways to increase cell stress, block neuron ... stress granules disrupt the cell transport system ...

Researchers from the University of Rochester have begun an ambitious project to study if living neurons can transmit light through their axons—the long, tail-like nerve fibers of neurons that resemble ...