Researchers have developed engineered human microglia that detect disease-related brain changes and release therapeutic ...

Key points A 5-year-old boy from rural east-central Ontario was referred to the urgent dermatology service with tender papulopustular and nodular lesions on the trunk, limbs, and face, which had ...

A new way to deliver disease-fighting proteins throughout the brain may improve the treatment of Alzheimer's disease and other neurological disorders, according to scientists. By engineering human ...

A new way to deliver disease-fighting proteins throughout the brain may improve the treatment of Alzheimer's disease and other neurological disorders, according to University of California, Irvine ...

The research team at the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences confirmed the ...

Northeastern University scientists have discovered that a protein in the human brain could potentially be used to grow new ...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a relatively rare but very serious disease of the nervous system. A cure is not yet ...

Researchers from the University of Rochester have begun an ambitious project to study if living neurons can transmit light through their axons—the long, tail-like nerve fibers of neurons that resemble ...

From a pinprick to a warm breeze, every sensation you perceive begins its journey along this ascending sensory pathway. For the first time, scientists have recreated the entire human nervous system’s ...

Scientists have identified a previously unknown type of neural stem cell (pNSC) that exists outside the brain and spinal cord ...

Nitric oxide (NO) is a gaseous signalling molecule that is involved in the regulation of the cardiovascular, immune and nervous systems. In the CNS, NO is involved in many processes, including the ...

For decades, scientists assumed that neural stem cells (NSCs) only occur in the brain and spinal cord. A new international ...