The vagus nerve does it all—tells your lungs to breathe, controls your heart rate, and even forms the foundation for a whole ...
A new electrical stimulation therapy for spinal muscle atrophy (SMA) has shown promise in reactivating motor neurons and ...
Motor neurone disease is an uncommon condition that mainly affects people in their 60s and 70s. The family of a boy living with motor neurone disease have said it was a "massive shock" for him to ...
The physiological power and biological value of brain-derived neurotrophic factor is so significant that it is often referred ...
Caltech researchers demonstrated a new method to use light to control active matter—a kind of material made up of individual ...
Nerve cells have amazing strategies to save energy and still perform the most important of their tasks. Researchers from the ...
New research shows that a network of subcellular structures similar to those responsible for propagating molecular signals that make muscles contract are also responsible for transmitting signals in ...
Connective tissue diseases are a heterogeneous group of autoimmune disorders that affect any of the body's connective tissues. These disorders can be inherited or acquired, and can present with a ...
Researchers found that brain tissue from people with dementia had up to ten times more plastic than others. However, they can’t confirm if higher plastic levels caused the dementia or if the disease ...