Most of our brain cells are glial cells, once thought to be mere support cells, but now understood as having a critical role in brain function. Glial cells in the human brain are markedly different from glial cells in other brains, suggesting that they may be important in the evolution of brain function.
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Related Brain cells come and brain cells go, but fat cells live forever. UNKNOWN My brain cells are dying in their trillions. TOM STOPPARD Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea. RICHARD SAUNDERS Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea. FREDERICK SAUNDERS This illustrates that injecting human stem cells into mouse brains doesn't restructure the brain. FRED GAGE When you look at cells that don't yet have a specific function – aren't differentiated, compared t... SOPHIE LELIèVRE This work shows that stem cells can be used as drug delivery vehicles in the brain. CLIVE SVENDSEN I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells. DR. SEUSS In regular cells, like in bone and blood, the cells divide. But brain cells do not normally divide. ... DANILO TAGLE Throughout our lifetimes, we are constantly regenerating new brain cells in the hippocampus, a proce... DAVID PERLMUTTER I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. DR. SEUSS I like nonsense. It wakes up the brain cells. DOCTOR SEUSS A meticulous virtual copy of the human brain would enable basic research on brain cells and circuits... HENRY MARKRAM Alcohol kills brain cells slowly, but that never bothered me because I'm not in a hurry. ANONYMOUS Your brain is built of cells called neurons and glia - hundreds of billions of them. Each one of the... DAVID EAGLEMAN When we talk about stem cells, we are actually talking about a complicated series of things, includi... DAVID BALTIMORE We speculate that our brains can compensate for up to a 60 percent loss of pre-Boetzinger cells, but... JACK FELDMAN Your brain forms roughly 10,000 new cells every day, but unless they hook up to preexisting cells wi... DOUGLAS COUPLAND The holy grail of our research is to convince those cells to regenerate, but now, we need to first u... MANFRED AUER This is a well-studied part of the brain. These are large cells that weren't really hiding. BEN W. STROWBRIDGE I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. DR. SEUSS Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied. ARNOLD H. GLASOW Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied. ARNOLD GLASGOW Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells
they occupied. ARNOLD GLASOW Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied. ARNOLD H. GLASGOW Brain cells are normally not sensitive to light. So by introducing light-sensitive proteins into spe... FENG ZHANG This research is significant because it suggests that it will be possible to create mouse 'models' o... GLENN MCGEE ...21st century leaders use their brain cells more than their muscle tissues! ISRAELMORE AYIVOR My mind is like the Titanic, to many brain cells for the life boats. STEVE MERRICK Reducing that requirement helps save the brain cells which can be revived later when the coma is wit... DR. GAYLAN ROCKSWOLD I read once that, on average, we replace the majority of our cells every seven years. Even more amaz... NICOLA YOON Just a few years ago, physicians were taught that once brain cells were lost there was little that c... DAVID LOWELL The beauty of this is you can use the stem cells as the Trojan horse. And once you put them in the b... CLIVE SVENDSEN It makes sense when you realize that compounds in foods are literally incorporated into brain cells.... SAMANTHA HELLER I get it now, our body is made up of cells and cells are meant to keep something from leaving. Which... ANDONI GARCIA Both in Britain and America, huge publicity has been given to stem cells, particularly embryonic ste... ROBERT WINSTON Growth factors are proteins that are involved in the development of nerve cells and are also importa... DORIT RON They are so rare in number. We are talking about, in typical blood that may have over a billion cell... DAN COLLINS The actual cells that we transplanted, the human cells, are the ones that are making myelin. We're e... AILEEN ANDERSON I have two brain cells left, and one of them is busy reminding me to buy toilet paper. DIANA GABALDON But the quickest way to a man's heart is also the quickest way to make him lose half his brain cells TOBIAS WADE Wait, wait. I don't get it.' 'That is because you only have eight functioning brain cells... JOHN GREEN theres actualy more cells in our brains than there are brains in our entire body KEN M There are over 7,000 different types of proteins in typical eukaryotic cells; the total number depen... ADA YONATH I think hopefully we've got enough brain cells left to decide if our music is really worth somet... WILL CHAMPION The idea is use it or lose it, work out your brain cells so they can stay active and healthy. GARY SMALL Holy fuck. Testing, testing. Is this thing on or has Botox already begun to corrode her brain cells? S.L. JENNINGS Saturated fat is a fundamental building block for brain cells. It's certainly interesting to con... DAVID PERLMUTTER With this state money, we will be able to work with human embryonic stem cells lines that we cannot ... DIANE KRAUSE Babies have millions of brain cells. They are like light bulbs waiting to be turned on. Don't wa... TONY BUZAN It seems like everything that we see perceived in the brain before we actually use our own eyes, tha... HAYAO MIYAZAKI Gone are the days when success depends on how you use your muscle tissues. In this 21st century, you... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR I apologize for creating this uproar both in and out of Korea. The fact remains that our research te... HWANG WOO SUK So many cancer therapies are as poisonous to healthy cells as they are to cancer cells. A therapy th... CRAIG MEYERS The theory behind previous research is that people with higher education have a higher brain or cogn... DR NIKOLAOS SCARMEAS The theory behind previous research is that people with higher education have a higher brain or cogn... DR. NIKOLAOS SCARMEAS Brain mapping can help physicians monitor patients with more accurate detail than they can obtain by... PAUL THOMPSON It is the quest for an understanding of hair cells at a molecular level that drives our research. We... MANFRED AUER Though we all know that the survival of the species depends on producing children, up until now we h... MARK VAN DOREN A single human brain has about a hundred million nerve cells... and a computer program that throws l... TONY HOARE The most dangerous cancer cells are actually the ones that are more like stem cells, which have this... ELIZABETH BLACKBURN Working out is incredibly boring. I swear it's true that the bigger your muscles get, the fewer ... CHRISTIAN BALE There are currently 58 diseases that are being treated using adult stem cells so the issue of stems ... JOSEPHINE QUINTAVALLE Stem cells tend to be smaller and have a slightly more compact shape than the differentiated cells. ... SEAN PALECEK I truly believe that God has given us few brain cells, and you have to direct them to the right thin... RANBIR KAPOOR Everything one reads is nourishment of some sort - good food or junk food - and one assumes it all g... LORRIE MOORE We are working on ways to get at the natural killer T cells without knocking out helper T cells, whi... DALE UMETSU We actually have 10 times as many cells of microbes on us as we have human cells... We are literally... JONATHAN EISEN One of the first papers I wrote at the University of Wisconsin, in 1977, was on stem cells. I realiz... BRUCE LIPTON We are inhabited by as many as ten thousand bacterial species; these cells outnumber those which we ... MICHAEL SPECTER This is a technology called convection-enhanced delivery. And what it does is it pushes the chemothe... DR. DEBORAH BENZIL In a way, science might be described as paranoid thinking applied to Nature: we are looking for natu... CARL SAGAN Previously we've had just the two cells down there and for a population of this size those two cells... ERIC TAYLOR All people have religions. It's like we have religion receptors built into our brain cells, or somet... NEAL STEPHENSON Mrs Collins brushed past me. My mind remained blank as i watched her walk down the hallway. For the ... KATIE MCGARRY On the other hand, mere critical thinking, without creative and intuitive insights, without the sear... CARL SAGAN There is no doubt that right-hemisphere intuitive thinking may perceive patterns and connections too... CARL SAGAN Some evidence suggests the left-handers are more likely to have problems with such left-hemisphere f... CARL SAGAN We are all cells in the same body of humanity. PEACE PILGRIM We are all cells in the same body of humanity. PILGRIMS Well, there are two kinds of stem cells: adult stem cells, which you can get from any part of a grow... MORT KONDRACKE We believe that these types of cells are actually more primitive and more flexible than the adult st... DAN COLLINS cells in a dish. JIM DOYLE So why in the world would anyone support the unethical, failed use of embryonic stem cells instead o... VIRGINIA FOXX There are some immediate experiments to see if we can use the same cocktails of growth factors to ex... HARVEY LODISH When I was a kid, my mother used to feed me mashed-potato sandwiches, brussel sprout sandwiches; my ... SYLVESTER STALLONE These are probably some of the rarest cells in the world. JOE GOLD The fossil showing two swarm cells in fused position and shedding of their flagella is evidence that... RANJIT K. KAR Stress does not cause pain, but it can exacerbate it and make it worse. Much of chronic pain is 'rem... HERBERT BENSON If you can make these cells fire in a specific fashion, the brain will process the information comin... LUKE THEOGARAJAN I'm sort of a Walter Mitty. I got fewer brain cells than most people, so when I got friendly wit... JAMES CAAN The best news is that natural killer cells are actually very efficient immune cells that fight virus... DR. BIBIANA BIELEKOVA ASPARTAME AND MSG: EXCITOTOXINS Aspartame is, in fact, an excitotoxin, one of a group of substances,... CAROLYN DEAN IPS cells can become a powerful tool to develop new drugs to cure intractable diseases because they ... SHINYA YAMANAKA Most of the tissues that age ... that we're interested in -- the brain, the heart, the muscle, the k... DOUG WALLACE Most of the tissues that age ... that we're interested in -- the brain, the heart, the muscle, the k... DOUG WALLACE We have about 100 million cells interconnected in our brains. They communicate with one another thro... MIGUEL NICOLELIS Unlike the heart or kidney, which have a small, defined set of cell types, we still do not have a ta... THOMAS R. INSEL I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. Its a w... DR. SEUSS (THEODOR SEUSS GEISEL) I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a ... STANISLAW J. LEM
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R. R. TOLKIEN It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to ... J. R. R. TOLKIEN He had a feeling that the answer was quite different and that he ought to know it, but he could no... J. R. R. TOLKIEN The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Short cuts make long delays. J. R. R. TOLKIEN When I am writing best, I really am lost in my world. I lose track of the outside world. I have a di... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate. J. R. R. TOLKIEN 'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things on... J. R. R. TOLKIEN Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not t... J. R. R. TOLKIEN His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or j... J. R. R. 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MARTIN I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN If I was a soldier going to war, I'd be pretty scared the night before a battle. It's a scar... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been. GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are... R. KELLY I have Marvin Gaye's driver's license. His wife sent it to me, because she really loved my &... R. KELLY I started to wear the sunglasses all the time at school, hiding behind them... I'd walk down the... R. KELLY I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But... R. KELLY When you hear romantic music, it makes you want to take your girl out to dinner or buy her something... R. KELLY Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies. R. 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PALMER Life is too short to learn German. R. PORSON If you were busy being kind, Before you knew it, you would find You'd soon forget to think 'twas tru... R. FOREMAN Math is like love -- a simple idea but it can get complicated. R. DRABEK Beautiful light is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is often the strongest ... R. TURNBULL We trample grass, and prize the flowers of May; yet the grass is green when the flower fades away. R. SOUTHWELL The land too poor for any other crop, is best for raising men. R. POCOCK When God created the first human beings, God led them around the garden of Eden and said: Look at my... R. KOHELET Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broken in cracking them, but never is the stomach fill... R. VENNING Destiny is for people who are too lazy to create alternate timelines. R. STEVENS 'Love Letter' reminds me of 'Chocolate Factory' and 'Happy People.' It's... R. KELLY If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it. R. KELLY In my community, mental health isn't taken seriously enough. Therapy is replaced by prayer. Tears ar... FRIDA R. I've been blackmailed a billion times. I've been sued for ridiculous things. At one point in... R. KELLY People can say whatever they want about you without knowing the facts. They can criticize you withou... R. KELLY My mom actually had a band called Six Pack - even though there were seven of them - who went around ... R. KELLY When I met Michael Jordan on a basketball court at an athletic club - we hooped together in Chicago ... R. KELLY They say marriage will change you but it didn't change me. Being in love changed me. R. KELLY Day drinking with a broken heart is like selling loose Cuban cigars like Newports, tryna... FRIDA R. The only good ideas are the ones I can take credit for. R. STEVENS Don't get yourself arrested and make your day worse! If you need to vent, just smash something that'... R. STEVENS Wasting sarcasm is a sin. R. STEVENS Why is it OK to love without a reason, but anger requires justification? R. STEVENS I'm NOT short. I prefer to think there is simply more space above my head for word balloons full of ... R. STEVENS Ever heard Victoria's REAL secret? Too much support hurts. R. STEVENS Biggie was a lyrical genius: he was a musical painter with words. As he rapped, you would see the pi... R. KELLY I wouldn't mind dying - it's the business of having to stay dead that scares the shit out of me. R. GEIS I started calling myself the Pied Piper, when I started using the flute sound in my music. R. KELLY I believe the work of art should change the existing visual, intellectual and aesthetical sense and ... GOPAKUMAR R I am not a traditionalist, questioning the social condition of the society. To achieve this, I use V... GOPAKUMAR R 'Trapped In The Closet' lives in a place on the earth on its own. It pays its own rent, it... R. KELLY 'Trapped in the Closet' is pretty much forever. I've got a leash on this thing now. I... R. KELLY I have always been infatuated with country music. R. KELLY I have always been infatuated with country music. Country music tells stories, and I've always l... R. KELLY Sin will take you farther than you want to go, keep you longer than you want to stay, and cost you m... R ZACCHARIAS As a businessman, I saw club tracks as a new franchise that could be profitable for years to come. I... R. KELLY Everywhere I go, from malls to restaurants to sold-out tours overseas and back, everywhere I've ... R. KELLY I slept and I dreamed that life was all joy. I woke and saw that life was but service. I served and ... R. TAGORE