“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 ...

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.

The axon caliber (diameter ... a better understanding of myelin biology and pathology is absolutely required. How do we structure a research effort to elucidate the mechanisms involved in ...

(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 ...

The Hodgkin-Huxley (H-H) theory of the action potential, formulated 50 years ago, remains one of the great success stories in biology ... range of data from squid axon, including the shape ...

On the technical side, our lab uses a number of complementary approaches to identify and study genes controlling axon navigation ... bioinformatics to predict candidate genes and molecular biology ...