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Multiple sclerosis is one of the most devastating neurodegenerative diseases. It affects some 2.5 million people worldwide. It has no known cure. Credit: Tel Aviv...

CHICAGO — Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered a new pathway in the brain that can be manipulated to alleviate depression. The pathway offers a promising...

A new Tel Aviv University study finds that combining genetic therapy with chemotherapy delivered to a primary tumor site is extremely effective in preventing breast...

Pete McCloskey, member of the PlantVillage team, uses a GoPro camera in a Tanzanian cassava field to shoot video from which still images are pulled....

People with spinal cord injuries suffer from many complications in addition to paralysis and numbness. Some of these problems are caused by a lack of...

In a recent study conducted by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) and the Harvard Medical School, running in minimalist shoes can increase leg and...

Researchers from Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience, Duke University, and collaborators have identified a novel signaling system controlling neuronal plasticity. Two new studies uncover...

Tau PET is a new and promising imaging method for Alzheimer’s disease. A case study from Lund University in Sweden now confirms that tau PET...

For the past 100 years, scientists have understood that different areas of the brain serve unique purposes. Only recently have they realized that the organization...

Anyone who has ever spotted a familiar face at a party but been unable to place where or when they last met that person knows...

In the amphibian world, the axolotl is the replacement-parts king. This is the axolotl, a remarkable model organism capable of complete limb and organ regeneration....

Cranial neural crest cells — which give rise to the bones and cartilage of the skull — are vulnerable to Zika virus, report Stanford University...

Researchers are hopeful of a cure for HIV after treating the first patient with a promising new treatment that could kill all traces of the...

A scientific blueprint to end tobacco cravings may be on the way after researchers crystallized a protein that holds answers to how nicotine addiction occurs...

Columbia scientists have developed a new mathematical model that helps to explain how the human brain’s biological complexity allows it to lay down new memories...