• Syncytial nerve net in a ctenophore adds insights on the evolution of nervous systems 

      Burkhardt, Pawel; Colgren, Jeffrey John; Medhus, Astrid; Digel, Leonid; Naumann, Benjamin; Soto Angel, Joan-Josep; Nordmann, Eva-Lena; Sachkova, Mariia; Kittelmann, Maike (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      A fundamental breakthrough in neurobiology has been the formulation of the neuron doctrine by Santiago Ramón y Cajal, which stated that the nervous system is composed of discrete cells. Electron microscopy later confirmed ...