A new study has found that increasing the levels of "healthy fats" may improve survival in a motor neurone disease model.

A baby diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) was successfully treated in the womb for the first time. Now over two years old, she shows no signs of the disease. This milestone suggests that ...

Enhancing levels of "healthy fats" like omega-3s in the brain could be beneficial in motor neuron disease (MND) finds a new study in fruit flies and brain cells, led by UCL researchers.

Increasing levels of healthy fats such as omega-3 in the brain could protect against motor neurone disease and dementia ... as the human body cannot produce them. Alpha linoleic acid is a type ...

Each year, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), millions of people in the U.S. are affected by spinal cord ...

Doctors in the US have treated a fetus with a rapidly progressive congenital disease while in the uterus for the very first ...

This important study offers a molecular characterization of neurons and glia in the adult nervous system of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. The study focuses on the progeny of a specific set of ...

Aspirin cuts the production of TXA2, leading to the anti-clotting effects, which underlies its ability to prevent heart ...

ALS, which is also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease, is a rare neurological disease that affects motor neurons — the nerve cells ...

A new study compares three types of blood biomarkers: neurofilament light chain proteins, glial acidic proteins and phosphorylated tau 181.