Tim-3, a molecule involved in immune regulation, hinders plaque removal in Alzheimer’s disease. Blocking it in microglia improved brain health in mice, making it a potential treatment target. Tim-3 is ...

A small protein involved in neurodegeneration leading to Parkinson's disease also drives a type of skin cancer known as melanoma, according to new research.

Neuroscientists at Stanford University have grown a tiny, two-centimeter-long ‘sausage’ made of human cells that may hold ...

In a major step forward for cancer treatment, researchers have developed a new type of “smart” chemical that attacks ...

Researchers have discovered a new way that neurons act in neurodegeneration by using human neural organoids -- also known as 'mini-brain' models -- from patients with frontotemporal lobar degeneration ...

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

A research team at Stanford University has become the first to assemble a functioning brain circuit in a lab dish by ...

A scientific team has used millions of human cells to build neural circuits in the laboratory that sense painful stimuli and ...

Being hailed as the next holy grail skincare ingredient; exosomes are a regenerative ingredient that act as messengers ...

Thought The Substance was a schlock horror movie about an ageing star who injects herself to shed her old skin? It feels like ...

Karl Koehler builds inner ear and skin organoids from human stem cells to model their development in health and disease.