When parts of the nervous system start to break down—or get broken—the consequences for human health can be staggering. Can ...

For decades, we had a simple story for MS, but new science on B-cells, neurodegeneration, and health disparities is forcing ...

There is an ever-growing expectation that stem cells will provide substantial benefit to people living with neurodegenerative disorders of the central nervous system such as Alzheimer disease, ...

Unlike most cells in the human body, neurons—the functional cells of our nervous system—cannot typically replace themselves ...

A nerve cell/neurone carries information in the form of nerve impulses from the receptor to thecoordinator. The coordinator – brain or spinal cord – determines whether or not to respond to the ...

The system is an example of a 3D human organoid -- stem cell cultures that reflect key structural and functional properties of human organ systems but are partial or otherwise imperfect copies.

What is glioma, the rare cancer behind Walking Dead star Kelley Mack’s death? - Mack has died after being diagnosed with the disease, aged 33 ...

You could say that we have created a family tree for the cells of the nervous system and the inner ear." Emma Andersson, docent at the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska ...

Glioblastoma cancer cells use mitochondria from the central nervous system to grow and form more aggressive tumors, according to new Cleveland Clinic-led findings published in Nature Cancer.