A team of neurobiologists at Howard Hughes Medical Institute has taken a closer look at Krause corpuscles and learned more about their role in the sexual behavior of mice. In their study, published in ...

After 7 days of culture, cells were collected and resuspended in an EDTA-containing medium to dissociate the clusters. Viable cells were counted by Trypan-blue exclusion of the dead cells. The ...

First described in the 1850s by Wilhelm Krause, the function and physiological functions of the sensory structures that bear his name have remained unclear. However, a study in Nature has shown that ...

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HOUSTON - More than 150 years after the discovery of Hassall's corpuscles in 1849, the function of these round blobs of cells in the human thymus gland has now been explained. The answer, in turn, ...

HOUSTON, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- University of Texas researchers say Hassall's corpuscles -- cells in the thymus gland that were discovered in 1849 -- are important in human immune systems. Scientists at ...

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We all know the feeling of a mobile phone vibrating in our hands. We perceive these vibrations so clearly thanks to specialized receptors that transduce them into neural signals sent to our brain. But ...