Mechanosensory hair cells in the inner ear function as the primary transducers for the perception of sound and balance, and defects in their formation result in profound sensory deficits 1. All inner ...

A variety of nerve cells makes it possible for you to orient yourself in space. Several migrate from an embryonic structure called the rhombic lip, and many of these in the auditory, vestibular and ...

Intestinal cells are constantly produced from a stem cell reservoir that gives rise to proliferating transient amplifying cells, which subsequently differentiate into one of the four principal cell ...

A gene that governs development of neuronal cells has now been shown to be involved in regulating differentiation of stem cells into secretory cells in the intestine. December 7, 2001 -— A gene that ...

HOUSTON - (Dec. 14, 2009) – Waking and walking to the bathroom in the pitch black of night requires brain activity that is both conscious and unconscious and requires a single master gene known as ...

HOUSTON -- (Dec. 3, 2009) –The master gene Math1 is involved in the genesis of the most common childhood brain tumor, medulloblastoma, said researchers from Baylor College of Medicine (www.bcm.edu) in ...

EVOLUTION has provided people with an exquisitely sensitive system of hearing and balance—the inner ear. But that sensitivity comes at a price, for the inner ear is also the sensory system most ...