Researchers are reporting that new Autism genes have been discovered.
Researchers at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute have discovered a new molecular clue about the cause of brain cell death in Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases.
Neuroscientists found that the specific microRNA, microRNA-29 (miR-29), can make brain cells resistant to programmed cell death. The researchers injected...
Parkinson’s disease may be caused by oxidative stress within cells due to defective nucleoli. Dopamine producing neurons are particularly sensitive...
Research into amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, has lead to new information about neuronal loss...
New Parkinson's disease research suggests defective regulation of microtubules may be responsible for some cases of Parkinson's disease.
Research using tobacco plants and Arabidopsis Thaliana weeds has answered long standing mysteries about sexual reproduction in plants. The research...
World Autism Awareness Day is here. April 2, 2011 marks the fourth annual World Autism Awareness Day. To help build...
As Parkinson’s Awareness Month gets underway, a Canadian-led international study is providing important new insight into Parkinson’s disease and paving...
A study of the salamander brain has led researchers at Karolinska Institutet to discover a hitherto unknown function of the...
Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee have for the first time successfully characterized the earliest structural...
Discovery points to a common cause for multifaceted disease For decades, autism researchers have faced a baffling riddle: how to...
