New insights have emerged into how the human brain develops. Two genes that are unique to humans work together to influence ...

A new study suggests that never-seen-before stem cells in the human retina can restore vision in mice with a common eye ...

Scientists have made a potentially “life-changing” discovery that could pave the way for new drugs to treat Parkinson’s ...

Scientists have developed a new method that can grow motor neurons from skin cells, which may serve as a platform for ALS ...

Today, medical research experiences a macabre crisis of supply and demand: organ donors and scientists alike need more human bodies than are available. In a new article published ...

Mia Love, the first Black Republican woman elected to Congress, died three years after being diagnosed with glioblastoma, a ...

Itay&Beyond grows brain tissue from patient urine stem cells to test neurological drugs, training the chips via video games ...

Mia Love, a daughter of Haitian immigrants who became the first Black Republican woman in Congress, representing a district in Utah, died after enduring glioblastoma—an aggressive cancer—for the last ...

Resilience relies on the brain’s ability to regulate emotion, adapt, and recover. Myelin plasticity helps speed up and stabilize resilient brain responses. Genes like FKBP5 and BDNF affect how people ...

For human health, prematurely aging cells are a big problem. When a cell ages and stops growing, its function changes, which can cause or worsen cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer's disease and other ...

Human aging significantly contributes to cognitive decline and increased susceptibility to late-life neurodegenerative diseases (e.g.Alzheimer’ s disease, ...

Research in mice identifies protein responsible for regulating gut movement in response to pressure, exercise, and ...