During evolution, organisms have come to perform more specialized tasks, requiring an increased degree of information processing by neurons and supply of nutrients by blood vessels. Wiring of neuronal ...

Each class of ORNs in Drosophila melanogaster expresses 1–2 specific olfactory receptors 1,2,3,4,5 that presumably bind specific odorant molecules. ORNs target their axons to structures called ...

You probably think of your nervous system as a kind of computer network, or some kind of electrical system that passes nerve impulses around. But in reality, the miraculous journey of a signal ...