“These findings challenge a century of understanding about axon structure,” Shigeki Watanabe, study author and associate professor of cell biology and neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins ...

On the technical side, our lab uses a number of complementary approaches to identify and study genes controlling axon navigation. Techniques involve genetic screens, RNA interference and CRISPR/Cas9 ...

Biology is one of the most basic fields of science with direct application to humans. Our continued existence on planet Earth depends in large part on how we resolve problems of a biological nature.

(This concept and velocity equation came from the historic study of action potentials in the squid giant axon by Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley in the 1940s-50s, partly at MBL.) However ...