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Researchers find the adhesions that build the brain’s networks
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Researchers find the adhesions that build the brain’s networks

by Karl Leif Bates,  Duke University School of Nursing This is an astrocyte, labeled with GFAP (red), Focal Adhesion Kinase (FAK) green, and nuclear stain To-Pro (blue). Credit: Nathan S. Ivey at TNPRC. Via Wikipedia. The brain’s neurons tend to get most of the scientific attention, but a set of cells around them called astrocytes—literally, star-shaped...