Scientists at the Wellcome Trust/ Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, have identified a new type of stem cell in the brain which they say has a high potential for repair following brain injury or disease.
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April 4, 2018
In work that brings researchers closer to the goal of precision medicine approaches to treating glaucoma and other neurodegenerative vision diseases, a new Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) study has, for the first time, been able to identify a wide variety of previously u
April 2, 2018
The disease mechanism for adult-onset progressive degenerative diseases begins much earlier than previously thought, according to a Northwestern Medicine study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
April 2, 2018
Science magazine reports that cellular and molecular biologist Patricia Murray, Ph.D., and biochemist Raphaël Lévy, Ph.D., of the University of Liverpool have filed a second complaint with the U.K.
March 28, 2018
Researchers at Houston Methodist have used computer modeling to find an existing investigational drug compound for leukemia patients to treat triple negative breast cancer once it spreads to the brain.
March 21, 2018
Like a great orchestra, your brain relies on the perfect coordination of many elements to function properly. And if one of those elements is out of sync, it affects the entire ensemble.
March 21, 2018
Whether caused by an undetected birth defect or by a heart attack (myocardial infarction), when a heart sustains damage it can be difficult to repair.
March 19, 2018
Cells made by fusing a normal human muscle cell with a muscle cell from a person with Duchenne muscular dystrophy — a rare but fatal form of muscular dystrophy — were able to significantly improve muscle function when implanted into the muscles of a mouse model of the disease.
March 19, 2018
Young, resting neural stem cells in the brains of mice store large clumps of proteins in specialized cellular trash compartments known as lysosomes, researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have found.
March 14, 2018
A study led by researchers at McMaster University has pinpointed a gene that is responsible for neurodevelopmental disorders, including autism.
