In my Feb 9 issue of Science, I read where our next big computer will work at the exaflop level (picture a switch being ...

Other iPSC-based models affecting neural crest lineages include Schwann cell and melanocyte-related disorders, including our effort to model human melanoma in pluripotent stem cells. Modeling herpes ...

They found that the duplication of the gene PMP22 causes problems in the cell membrane of Schwann cells that provide the insulating cover for nerves. The team has published the results of their ...

When Schwann heard about the nucleus, he realized that he had seen a similar structure in the vertebrate notochord—a rodlike structure in the embryo that develops into the spinal column. Sure enough, ...

Each year in the United States, more than 5,000 people are diagnosed with an acoustic neuroma. They are often between the ages of 30 and 60. Acoustic neuroma tumors begin in what are called Schwann ...