Researchers identified 16 distinct types of nerve cells involved in human touch and compared them with those in mice and macaques, showing both shared and unique traits.

It's only during the last few decades that neuroglia, a diverse group of cells found in the brain that perform a variety of ...

Patients with Huntington’s disease have a genetic mutation that triggers proteins to misfold and clump together in the brain.

Scientists at Northwestern and Case Western Reserve universities have developed the first polymer-based therapeutic for Huntington's disease, an ...

B cells normally can’t cross from your blood into your brain or spinal cord. If you have MS, some B cells enter your brain and ... and plays a part in slowing down nerve damage.

More than 11% of the U.S. population has diabetes, according to the American Diabetes Association, but as common as this ...

"Obviously, people less fortunate don't have ... nerve bridges from olfactory ensheathing cells, overcoming previous limitations involved in the transplantation of cells directly into the spinal ...

In tendons, which connect muscle to bone, the cells must be organised in such a way that the tendons can withstand enormous tensile forces. And nerve tissue also ... it solidifies into hydrogel.

Under certain conditions, SOD1 will change its shape and reassemble itself into ... cells and the mechanisms involved," he said. ALS is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve ...