Bacterial meningitis kills within hours if untreated. Learn 8 critical warning signs that demand emergency care and how this ...

A phase 1 clinical trial demonstrated the long-term safety and feasibility of neural stem cell transplantation for treating chronic spinal cord injuries. The corresponding study was published in Cell ...

Your meninges play an important function in your body as part of the brain and spinal cord. What are the meninges? Read on to learn what they do, signs of meninges-related conditions, and more.

They connect with the space in the centre of the spinal cord and the brain membranes (meninges). So the fluid can circulate around and through the brain and spinal cord. There are 4 ventricles inside ...

The spinal cord is a long, tube-like structure extending from the base of your brain (the brain stem). It’s made of a collection of nerves and is encircled and protected by the bones of the ...

Over the course of 40 days, the cells within the organoid self-organized into structures that resembled the early stages of brain and spinal cord development in a human embryo.

This new model, in contrast, recapitulates the development of all three sections of embryonic brain and spinal cord simultaneously—something that has not been achieved in previous models.

The spinal cord is a long, fragile column that contains nerve cells and skinny fibers called axons, which deliver messages back and forth between the brain and nerves located throughout the body ...

They start in the cells that line the blood vessels in the brain, spinal cord and brain stem. They usually grow slowly over some years. Read about haemangioblastomas ... Meningiomas are tumours that ...

The brain stem is the part of the brain that makes direct contact with the spinal cord. Gliomas are tumors that form in the brain and can sometimes be cancerous.