Transcriptomic comparisons reveal shared classes of neuron types "We profiled over 280,000 cells from the brain of Pogona and identified 233 distinct types of neurons", explains David Hain, graduate ...

Knowledge of the cell-type specific make-up of the brain is useful to understand the role of each cell type as part of the network, is necessary to tackle any large scale neural circuit simulation, ...

Nerve cells are not just nerve cells. Depending on how finely we distinguish, there are several hundred to several thousand different types of nerve cell in the human brain according to the latest ...