In the hippocampus, a critical brain region for learning and memory, new cells emerge in some people into late adulthood, ...

New research shows that adults' brains still carry stem cells that grow, divide, and eventually become new mature neurons.

Scientists have uncovered how a protein helps build and maintain vital brain connections, providing insights into the ...

The cerebrum, especially the cerebral cortex, has long been thought to be the important part of our brain. However, the ...

UC Riverside study may lead to new treatments for multiple sclerosis. Multiple sclerosis (MS) affects an estimated 2.3 ...

Scientists at the University of Western Australia and the Perron Institute for Neurological and Translational Science have ...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a lethal neurodegenerative disease prominently featuring motor neuron (MN) loss and paralysis. A recent study using whole-cell patch clamp recording of MNs in ...

An iPSC-based ALS-on-a-chip model that mimics disease progression and reveals altered glutamate signaling in motor neurons ...

Cedars-Sinai has created a lifelike model of the mysterious and fatal disease that could help identify a cause of the illness ...

For years, BAMs were hidden in plain sight, often mistaken for other immune cells. That changed with new tools like fate mapping (tracks a cell’s developmental origin) and single-cell RNA sequencing, ...

To be able to study ALS-linked neuroinflammation in the lab, researchers generated “spinal microtissues” containing motor ...

D bioprinted nerve tissues offer new hope for ALS drug testing. Uppsala team creates motor neuron organoids from patient ...