A new study reveals that nerve cells receive periodic infusions of mitochondria from neighboring cells — and this may point ...

A recent study by the Hector Institute for Translational Brain Research (HITBR) at the Central Institute of Mental Health ...

Some parts of our bodies bounce back from injury in fairly short order. The outer protective layer of the eye—called the ...

Aperture Therapeutics is advancing APRTX-003, an RNA-based antisense therapy targeting MMP9, as a potential ALS treatment.

Microneurography is a method that allows the researchers to listen to the nerve signalling in one nerve cell at a time. No less than 16 different types of nerve cells have been identified by ...

For millions living with nerve pain, even a light touch can feel unbearable. Scientists have long suspected that damaged ...

Our brain’s memory center bears a sleek design. A peek into living tissue from human hippocampi, a brain region crucial for memory and learning, revealed relatively few cell-to-cell connections for ...

Scientists have recreated a pathway that senses pain, using clusters of human nerve cells grown in a dish. Pain pathway in a dish could aid search for new analgesic drugs Scientists have re-created a ...

January 8, 2026 – National Institutes of Health (NIH) released the following: ...

It’s a bit like seeing a world in a grain of sand. Except the view, in this case, is the exquisite detail inside a bit of human brain about half the size of a grain of rice. Held in that minuscule ...

An international research team identified hundreds of genes essential for the development of brain cells, including one gene ...