In Parkinson's disease, alpha synuclein clumps move to and damage mitochondrial proteins, making them less efficient and causing the mitochondrial to burst, leaking out chemicals that tell the cells to die, researchers say.
In two separate experiments, researchers have succeeded in transforming skins cells into neurons.
Researchers present a new therapeutic strategy that could help patients with Alzheimer's disease.
Researchers have designed a new method of converting non-neural cells into functioning neurons that are able to form synapses, dispense dopamine, and restore the function of neurons undermined by Parkinson's associated destruction of dopaminergic cells.
A new study tracks the development of astrocytes derived from human cortical spheroids. Researchers report hCSs grown astrocytes develop at the same rate as those in the human brain.
Researchers have developed a new technique to study the development of human neurons compared to the neurons of nonhuman primates. The findings shed new light on the evolution of the human brain.
A Stem Cell Report study details a new method to produce human neurons from iPSCs.
Study reveals why some people with bipolar disorder respond to lithium while others don't.
Researchers have derived a new method for deriving astrocytes from stem cells, opening the door to new research into neuroinflammatory diseases.
Researchers have identified a gene which could help explain why the human brain is larger than those of other animals.
A team of scientists at Penn State University, the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, and other institutions have developed a...
Researchers have generated motor neurons from people with familial ALS who carry FUS mutations.
