Without glial cells, animals lose their senses worms

Thursday, October 30, 2008 - 14:00 in Biology & Nature

Sensory neurones have always put on a good show. But now, it turns out, they'll be sharing the credit. In groundbreaking research to appear in the 31 October issue of Science, Rockefeller University scientists show that while neurones play the lead role in detecting sensory information, a second type of cell, the glial cell, pulls the strings behind the scenes...

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