By analyzing tissue from patients with Parkinson's disease, and animal and cellular models of the disease, a research team from the Institut de...

Researchers at UC San Francisco have identified a hazardous waste collector in the brain that disposes of the toxic clumps of tau protein that can...

Scientists have discovered that old cells lose their coordinated gene activity. By resetting these internal control systems, researchers made aged...

Scientists have discovered that old cells lose their coordinated gene activity. By resetting these internal control systems, researchers made aged...

Researchers have developed a way to grow a highly specialized subset of brain nerve cells that are involved in motor neuron disease and damaged in...

New research challenges the century-old practice of mapping the brain based on how tissue looks under a microscope. By analyzing electrical signals...

The reality is that all humans will grow old and this process cannot be reversed. So humans have long tried to slow down the aging process by creating...

New research reveals how Parkinson's spreads from the gut to the brain, with the help of immune cells – offering a new potential therapeutic...

Pixel-Shot/Shutterstock Imagine Max, a well-trained border collie, manages to ignore a squirrel in the park when his owner tells him to sit. His owner...

Pixel-Shot/Shutterstock Imagine Max, a well-trained border collie, manages to ignore a squirrel in the park when his owner tells him to sit. His owner...