Sleeping deeply into the afternoon after an all-nighter or a late night out is one way the body repays its sleep debt. The ...

Cedars-Sinai has created a lifelike model of the mysterious and fatal disease that could help identify a cause of the illness ...

A new understanding of how tumours exploit our nervous system is leading to new ways to treat cancer using familiar drugs ...

Marked by muscles withering away and the inability to speak and eat, motor neurone disease is fatal and affects more than ...

In the hippocampus, a critical brain region for learning and memory, new cells emerge in some people into late adulthood, ...

Most textbooks credit nearby epithelial cells with the heavy lifting of organ building, because epithelial sheets act like ...

Neurons talk to one another using electricity. If you could hear these impulses, they might sound like constant, rapid-fire chatter all over the nervous system. Heart muscle cells do something similar ...

Fred Hutch researchers have created a gene-expression map of glial cells of the tiny worm, C. elegans, adding the missing ...

In a breakthrough study, scientists found that silencing a single overactive enzyme in the brain reversed early damage caused ...

Putting the brakes on an enzyme might rescue neurons that are dying in Parkinson's disease, stabilizing the progression of ...

Scientists discover that dental pulp stem cells from wisdom teeth could regenerate neurons and bones and offer treatments for ...

Scientists at the University of Western Australia and the Perron Institute for Neurological and Translational Science have ...