Key points In 1873, Camillo Golgi developed a breakthrough method for viewing neurons microscopically. He came to believe, however, that all neurons were fused together, making one vast reticulum 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 ...

The Golgi apparatus, in common with other cytoplasmic organelles, must be replicated during the cell cycle. Recent studies using green fluorescent protein (GFP) fusions, suggest that this process may ...

It was discovered more than a century ago, but cell biologists are still debating whether the Golgi complex is an autonomous entity. Erika Check profiles an organelle in identity crisis. Ever since ...

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 ...

In 1906, biologists Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramón y Cajal shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries that illuminated the physical structures of the human brain. Working ...

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 ...

In 1898, Camillo Golgi, an eminent Italian physician and pathologist, published a landmark paper on the structure of “nervous cells.” In addition to the organelle that still bears his name, the Golgi ...

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 ...

Scientists in New York and North Carolina are reporting assembly of the first functioning prototype of an artificial Golgi organelle. That key structure inside cells helps process and package hormones ...