A new understanding of how tumours exploit our nervous system is leading to new ways to treat cancer using familiar drugs ...

Motor neuron disease (MND) is a devastating condition that causes progressive muscle weakness by damaging the motor neurons, ...

Instead of relying on a single neuron, the brain uses the pattern of activity across many neurons to encode information to ...

Cancer cells can acquire energy-generating structures called mitochondria from nearby nerve cells, which seems to aid their ...

Researchers are developing promising suppression systems for painful conditions—even an app on your phone that turns the pain off.

D printers can be used to make organoids from a patient's cells that resemble human nerve tissue to test new amyotrophic ...

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

With the aid of a 3D printer, researchers at Uppsala University have succeeded in creating a model that resembles human nerve ...

A protein found in our cells has emerged as a secret weapon against biological aging, acting like a glue to repair damaged ...

Every decision begins invisibly. Long before someone acts, the brain is already hard at work gathering evidence, weighing ...

Researchers have now shown that, despite individual differences in neuron activity, a shared underlying structure guides the ...

ALS has robbed Eric Dane of functioning in his right arm and is creeping through his left, the veteran actor said in an emotional interview about the diagnosis he revealed in April.