The recurrent laryngeal nerve takes a needlessly long detour from the brain to the voice box, looping all the way down into the chest before returning upward. This inefficient pathway makes it one of ...

The recurrent laryngeal nerve is one of the most baffling features of human anatomy. Instead of going straight from the brain to the larynx, it loops all the way down into the chest before returning ...

An NIH-supported initiative seeks to unravel how the nervous system tracks and regulates the body’s internal organs. How does ...

In diabetes, much attention goes to sugar control, insulin levels, and the threat of nerve damage. But a new study reveals something often overlooked—how the breakdown of nerve function in diabetes ...

A speedy imaging method can map the nerves running from a mouse’s brain and spinal cord to the rest of its body at micrometre-scale resolution, revealing details such as individual fibres travelling ...