He has a robotic body and a full brain-computer ... preventing healthy cells from reading the messages they ... The motor neurone diseases (or motor neuron diseases) (MND) are a group of ...

Prof. Robert Forster, Dr. Michal Wagner, Dr. Áine Brady and Oisín Foley Doyle from the School of Chemical Sciences at Dublin ...

Neurons are excitable cells that receive and send signals that consist of a cell body ... Neurons can function as motor neurons, sensory neurons, or interneurons. Neuron connectivity can be ...

Researchers have developed a new set of gene delivery tools designed to target specific cell types in the human brain and spinal cord. The toolkit represents an advance toward gene therapies that ...

Searching for stability, the nanofibers bonded to amyloid-beta proteins, a key culprit implicated in Alzheimer’s disease. But ...

Neuropathy, a disorder in which damage to nerves can impair sensation and movement, has many causes, including infection. Now ...

In many neurodegenerative diseases, proteins misfold and clump together in brain tissue. Scientists developed a new therapy made of peptides and a sugar that naturally occurs in plants. The ...

ATH-1105, an experimental oral therapy for ALS, was found to be safe and well tolerated in healthy adult volunteers in a ...

Evidence is mounting that clinicians can treat serious genetic disorders prenatally by injecting medicine into the amniotic fluid, thus preventing damage that begins in utero.

Scientists at Northwestern University have developed a new approach that directly combats the progression of neurodegenerative diseases like ...