Key points When Schleiden's law practice foundered, he shot himself, survived, and took a new profession as a botanist. In the next decade, he concluded that cells were the basic units of plant life.

Rat sciatic nerve Schwann cells in culture respond to a limited range of mitogens, including glial growth factor, transforming growth factors beta-1 and beta-2 (TGF-β1, TGF-β2), some cell ...

Since Robert Hooke discovered cells in 1665 and Theodor Schwann proposed the classical cell theory in 1839, the cell therapy industry has grown by leaps and bounds. Today, there are several potential ...

In a previous post, I described the 1873 discovery by Camillo Golgi of a method to visualize neurons and his decades-long debate with co-Nobelist Santiago Ramón y Cajal, which led to our current ...