1 Virginia Merrill Bloedel Hearing Research Center, Department of Otolaryngology-HNS, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States 2 Department of Neurobiology, University of Chicago, Chicago, ...

It is a congenital condition, which means it is present from birth. In Hirschsprung's disease, certain types of nerve cells (ganglion cells) are missing from a part of the bowel. In areas without such ...

How neurons acquire features distinct to each synapse remains unknown. We show that the transcription factor Mafb drives the formation of auditory ribbon synapses, which are specialized for rapid ...