The brain’s capacity for memory, reasoning and comprehension skills (cognitive function) can start to deteriorate from age 45, finds research...
The findings could point the way to new therapies. Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have discovered that DNA stays...
Radiology researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) have found evidence that multiple sclerosis affects...
People who have the most common type of adult muscular dystrophy also have a higher risk of getting cancer, according...
Hippocampal Atrophy Seen with Early Cognitive Decline in Parkinson’s Disease Atrophy in the hippocampus, the region of the brain known...
A Surprisingly Simple Method To Target Harmful Proteins Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new method to design...
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have devised a simple test, using dopamine-deficient worms, for identifying drugs that...
A research group from the University of Leeds has shown that infection by the brain parasite Toxoplasma gondii, found in...
Researchers discover common cause of all forms of ALS. The underlying disease process of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS and Lou Gehrig’s disease), a fatal neurodegenerative disease that paralyzes its victims, has long eluded scientists and prevented development of effective therapies. Scientists weren’t even sure all its forms actually converged into a common disease process.
Buck Institute research in mice moves into preclinical stage; working toward human trials Lithium profoundly prevents the aggregation of toxic...
Structural biologists at the Keck School of Medicine of USC are the first to measure the energy difference between protein...
Discovery points to a common cause for multifaceted disease For decades, autism researchers have faced a baffling riddle: how to...
