It is commonplace in public discourse to complain that one’s opponent continues to hold a fixed belief long after evidence to the contrary. The opponent either benefits from professing the belief, or ...

Cajal used the technique to produce the exquisitely detailed illustrations of brain cells that later formed the basis for his “neuron doctrine,” which stated that the neuron is the basic anatomical ...

PROF. CAMILLO GOLGI, member of the Italian Senate for a number of years, Nobel Prizeman in 1906, died on January 21. Though almost eighty-four years of age, he had preserved until a short time ago the ...

The Brain in Search of Itself: Santiago Ramón y Cajal and the Story of the Neuron. By Benjamin Ehrlich. Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 464 pages; $35. To be published in Britain in April; £27.99 IN 1906 ...

Based on: The Hidden Structure: A Scientific Biography of Camillo Golgi, By Paolo Mazzarello. Translated and edited by Henry A. Buchtel and Aldo Badiani. 407 pp., illustrated. New York, Oxford ...

Scientists are reporting assembly of the first functioning prototype of an artificial Golgi organelle. That key structure inside cells helps process and package hormones, enzymes, and other substances ...