Scientists discovered a new way to protect memory in Alzheimer's by targeting the blood-brain barrier instead of amyloid ...

Genprex, Inc. ("Genprex" or the "Company") , a clinical-stage gene therapy company focused on developing life-changing therapies for patients with cancer and diabetes, announced that its research ...

The body’s pathogen fighters can act as surveillance forces that ferry information from the gut and fat deposits to the brain ...

Neuroscientists can now make precise genetic tweaks to the neurons that are most affected by brain diseases such as Parkinson ...

So is it actually possible for adults to grow neurons? While some experts believe there's strong evidence that we can gain ...

A new study from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology has uncovered how the MN1 gene evolved to shape both the ...

The research, published June 4 in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, identifies critical connections between activity of the epilepsy drug perampanel and the resulting movements of the AMPA ...

Tissue morphogenesis requires the precise control of cell shape and cell dynamics. Cell shape is governed by cell mechanics, which explains how a set of intracellular and extracellular forces ...

Infectious diseases such as gonorrhea or chlamydia are often overlooked factors that affect fertility in men. Accumulating evidence suggests that a common single-celled parasite called Toxoplasma ...