A new animal model of nerve injury has brought to light a critical role of an enzyme called Nmnat in...
Using nanoparticles and alternating magnetic fields, University of Georgia scientists have found that head and neck cancerous tumor cells in...
New research in humans published today reveals that the so-called FKBP52 protein may prevent the Tau protein from turning pathogenic....
Huntington’s disease, the debilitating congenital neurological disorder that progressively robs patients of muscle coordination and cognitive ability, is a condition...
Southwestern Medical Center investigators have identified a genetic manipulation that increases the development of neurons in the brain during aging...
Molecular ‘tweezers’ break up toxic aggregations of proteins. Millions of people suffer from Parkinson’s disease, a disorder of the nervous...
Neuroscientists show that HDAC2 enzyme could be a good target for new drugs. MIT neuroscientists have shown that an enzyme...
Sandia National Laboratories researchers, using off-the-shelf equipment in a chemistry lab, have been working on ways to improve amputees’ control...
The carnage evident in disasters like car wrecks or wartime battles is oftentimes mirrored within the bodies of the people...
Our bodies are full of tiny superheroes—antibodies that fight foreign invaders, cells that regenerate, and structures that ensure our systems...
In three adults, repeat dose safely improves vision. Gene therapy for congenital blindness has taken another step forward, as researchers...
The same gene mutations linked to inherited, early-onset Alzheimer’s disease have been found in people with the more common late-onset...
