Scientists have developed a new method that can grow motor neurons from skin cells, which may serve as a platform for ALS ...

Sexually transmitted diseases like herpes, HIV, and syphilis may at least partly be to blame for America's dementia epidemic, ...

In a quiet laboratory in the early 1990s, a discovery was made that would challenge conventional wisdom about how our bodies ...

A recent study reveals that the human brain, when lacking energy, might draw from its own fatty tissues. This discovery ...

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a disorder affecting the motor neurons—nerve cells that control voluntary muscle movement ... SMA weakens the muscles closest to the center of the body, including the ...

A new interdisciplinary study by researchers from the Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and the Andrew and Erna ...

Neurons are the cells in the brain responsible for sending messages to the rest of the body, and scientists have long thought ...

17, 2025 — It has long been thought that only nerve and heart cells use electric impulses to communicate, while epithelial cells -- which compose the linings of our skin, organs and body ...

The body's cells respond to stress-toxins, mutations, starvation or other assaults-by pausing normal functions to focus on conserving energy, repairing damaged components and boosting defenses.

A year ago, Terry Bott, 69, was diagnosed with motor neurone disease and told he had ... MND is a rapidly progressive disease that affects the nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord.

This important study suggests that adolescent mice exhibit less accuracy than adult mice in a sound discrimination task when the sound frequencies are very similar. While the evidence supporting this ...