Researchers at Tulane University, with a team of colleagues from eight other universities, have discovered a new nerve cell ...

Neural tissue engineering aims to mimic the brain's complex environment, the extracellular matrix, which supports nerve cell ...

The experimental therapy M102 slowed disease progression in preclinical experiments done in mouse and cell models of ALS, a ...

A drug candidate found to protect nerve cells damaged by motor neuron disease (MND), could offer new hope to people living ...

A specific RNA molecule can halt and reverse the nerve cell damage of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a study in mice suggests, a discovery that may pave the way for effective future treatments for the ...

Researchers identify neurotoxic protein complex and a pharmacological inhibitor that opens new perspectives for developing ...

A mini-peptide has been created that delays the early damage caused by Parkinson's disease and promises a way to slow down ...

After years of work, cognition and neuroscience doctoral student Hailey Welch is—for the first time—the lead author of a ...

Nerve cells are not just nerve cells. Depending on how finely we distinguish, there are several hundred to several thousand different types of nerve cell in the human brain according to the latest ...

To coax human nerve cells in a laboratory to thrive, there are three magic words: location, location, location. Many experiments grow human nerve cells in lab dishes. But a new study enlists some real ...

Mesenchymal stem cell therapy shows promise for treating MS, but more research is needed on long-term safety and efficacy, a ...