Researchers at the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (NRI) at Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine recently made an important advance in neurodegenerative disease ...

In recent months, the Food and Drug Administration and National Institutes of Health have announced new initiatives to reduce and replace animal testing in biomedical research. Central to these ...

Researchers have developed a gene-editing treatment for prion disease that extends lifespan by about 50 percent in a mouse model of the fatal neurodegenerative condition. The treatment, which uses ...

A promising target The Schwarz Lab's study, recently published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, shows that deleting or disabling a single protein—SARM1—can preserve RGCs and maintain vision ...

VAS‑101, a skin gel containing curcumin, was shown to partially reverse impairments to the powerhouses of cells in the hearts ...

Understanding the shape or morphology of neurons and mapping the tree-like branches via which they receive signals from other ...

In the wild, a mouse or rat leads a precarious life. In the city, they dodge traps, poisons, and broom-wielding humans. In the countryside, they face owls, shotguns, and more poison. As Australia’s ...

Scientists saw that a trio of supplements improved brain connectivity and social behaviour in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) ...