Myelin, the protective sheath around nerve fibers, plays a crucial role in brain communication. It ensures fast and efficient ...

How does our nervous system operate so quickly and efficiently? The answer lies in a membranous structure called myelin. Aa Aa Aa All our activities — eating, walking, talking — are controlled ...

EBV antibodies trigger MS by attacking brain proteins. Genetic factors worsen risk. Breakthrough insights for treatment.

You disconnect your cell phone from its charger as you get ready for a busy day. But even though it has been connected all night, the battery is only partially charged. You look at ...

In MS, slowly expanding lesions were linked to more myelin loss in brain regions of damage and in normal-appearing brain ...

A new multiple sclerosis (MS) research project designed to help the brain repair itself by activating its own healing ...

"The primary motivation behind our recent paper was a very speculative idea that myelin may have evolved as a highly ...

A discovery led by OHSU was made possible by years of study conducted by University of Portland undergraduates. Scientists ...

Conditional knock-out mice in which Myrf is knocked out in the OL lineage cells completely fail to develop CNS myelin and exhibit severe neurological symptoms, eventually prematurely dying. Recently, ...

MS is a neurological disease. It causes the immune system to attack and destroy myelin, a protective fatty tissue surrounding nerve cells. This process, called demyelination, affects the function ...