The team used a cellular mechanism similar to that used by many invertebrates to repair damage to nerve axons. Their results are published today in the Journal of Neuroscience Research.

In the late nineteenth century, there were numerous attempts to show how the central nervous system (CNS) evolved. However, no consensus was reached and the subject went out of style until around ...

Comparative studies of neurodevelopment in cnidarians and bilaterians suggest that this process began with distinct integration centres that evolved on opposite ends of an initial nerve net.

A new way of repairing severed nerves in humans may be closer to reality thanks to observing how invertebrates repair nerve damage. Currently nerve damage in humans can take months or years to repair.

Octopuses are not much like humans — they are invertebrates with eight arms ... a structure by which the intramuscular nerve cords (INCs), which help the animal sense its arm movement, connect ...