Internal receptors respond to changes inside the body. For example, they can detect changes in the blood’s chemical properties or respond to potentially damaging stimuli by causing the perception of ...

preventing healthy cells from reading the messages they ... Drugs that "switch on" vitamin A in the body may also help stave off conditions such as motor neuron disease (MND). The largest-ever ...

Neurons are cells in the body that are responsible for transmitting ... and muscles that control the body. The three neuron types (sensory, motor, interneuron) are separated into two categories ...

Researchers devised a process to convert a skin cell directly into a neuron, eliminating the need to generate induced pluripotent stem cells. Such neurons could be used to treat spinal cord injuries ...

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 ... as the human body cannot ...

According to Dr Matilda Wendo, a Neurologist at The Aga Khan Hospital, MNDs are a group of progressive neurological disorders that destroy motor neurons, the cells that control skeletal muscle ...

A two-and-a-half-year-old girl shows no signs of a rare genetic disorder, after becoming the first person to be treated for the motor-neuron condition while in the womb. The child’s mother took ...

“So, we’re using direct conversion, where instead of going through an iPSC intermediate, we’re going directly from a somatic cell to a motor neuron.” The original process involved a set of ...

"So, we're using direct conversion, where instead of going through an iPSC intermediate, we're going directly from a somatic cell to a motor neuron." Galloway's research group and others have ...

Otuoma died after a long battle with Motor Neurone ... to nerve cells in the brainstem and spinal cord (lower motor neurons), which then send signals to muscles throughout the body.