A research team has developed a way to produce a subset of highly specialised brain neurons that centrally degenerate in motor neuron disease and are damaged in spinal cord injury, laying foundations ...

Researchers have developed a way to grow a highly specialized subset of brain nerve cells that are involved in motor neuron ...

Scientists have developed a computer-based model that may explain how nerve cells become damaged in ALS, and how best to time ...

The human brain contains billions of connected neurons that collectively support different mental functions, including the ...

Over the past decades, computer scientists have developed increasingly advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems that ...

Stressed brain cells can survive longer by slowing sugar use, revealing a short-term protective response that later turns ...

It could transform our understanding of why diseases develop and the medicines needed to treat them, says researchers.

Harvard researchers have developed a method to grow specialized neurons, offering hope for better treatments for ALS and ...

Findings could create new opportunities to treat and study neurodegenerative diseasesScientists discovered that sugar ...

Despite lacking a hippocampus entirely—and having diverged from the mammalian lineage roughly 400 million years ago—larval ...

When it comes to neurodegenerative diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and certain forms of dementia, ...

New research challenges the century-old practice of mapping the brain based on how tissue looks under a microscope. By analyzing electrical signals from thousands of neurons in mice, scientists ...