Fiber supplements can help meet daily fiber intake goals and assist with weight loss, constipation, and blood glucose control. To get the most benefit, you should take them consistently, at a ...

The carbon fiber industry, long seen as a niche market supplying high-tech and high-value applications, is undergoing significant transformation. Traditionally dominated by a few established players, ...

Neural foraminal stenosis is a common condition that can cause symptoms referred to as a pinched nerve. The neural foramen (spinal foramen) are small holes on the sides of the backbone that are ...

In their current study, which has been published in the journal eLife, the researchers investigated its effect on human nerve cells that they had cultivated from stem cells. The result ...

This pulling action doesn’t just help the spider release the silk, it’s also a crucial step in strengthening the silk fibers for a more durable web. In a new study, Northwestern Engineering ...

The Supporting Information is available free of charge at https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.biomac.4c01781. Number values for repeat motif coverage and accession ...

Key Laboratory of Bionic Engineering of Ministry of Education, Jilin University, Changchun 130022, China ...

The team identified a special type of human white blood cell capable of regrowing nerve fibers – a process previously thought impossible in conditions where damaged nerve cells typically don’t ...

However, it is not easy to selectively activate afferent or efferent fibers of mixed nerves, nor their functional subtypes. Optogenetics overcomes these issues by controlling activity selectively in ...

Medically reviewed by Huma Sheikh, MD Neurons are cells in the body that are responsible for transmitting electrical signals ...