Neurodegenerative diseases like multiple sclerosis (MS) affect millions of people worldwide and occur when parts of the nervous system lose function over time. Researchers at the University of ...

June 21, 2022 — Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive disease of the nervous system. It affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord called motor neurons. Motor neurons ...

Other scientists have only recently identified hot and cold nerve cell receptors in the peripheral nervous system located just beneath the skin. This is the system that tells the brain to pull the ...

Madeleine Lancaster has 300 brains growing in her lab – here’s how she’s done it. Watch how the brains are grown Madelaine Lancaster grows the tiny brains in her lab in this short film As ...

Published in eLife, Nurcan Üçeyler, a neurologist at the University of Würzburg, and her colleagues used emerging imaging techniques to discover that nerve fibers not only weave around skin cells but ...

Comedian Will Rogers observed “It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.” What we know, or used to know, is: Our nervous system is made up exclusively ...

A new wave of research is unpicking the relationship between cancer and neurons — and looking for ways to stop the crosstalk.

Vitamin D deficiency, a widespread global health issue affecting billions, stems from insufficient sunlight exposure, diet, or absorption. Older adults, infants, and those with darker skin are at ...

Your skin is your body’s largest external organ. It provides a barrier between your body’s essential organs, muscles, tissues, and skeletal system and the outside world.

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