Team from Oxford and Stony Brook first to use optogenetics to control excitation waves in heart cells We depend on electrical waves to regulate the rhythm of our heartbeat. When those signal... Read more
New technique to selectively and noninvasively turn on groups of neurons in worms could be boon to science and medicine Salk scientists have developed a new way to selectively activate brain... Read more
Scientists at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy are creating white blood cells that teach brain cells to heal the damage caused by degenerative neurological disorders like Parkinson’s dise... Read more
Scientists at Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet have managed to build a fully functional neuron by using organic bioelectronics. This artificial neuron contain no ‘living’ parts, but is capable... Read more
Scientists have pinpointed a population of neurons in the brain that influences whether one drink leads to two, which could ultimately lead to a cure for alcoholism and other addictions. A s... Read more
Scientists have described a way to convert human skin cells directly into a specific type of brain cell affected by Huntington’s disease, an ultimately fatal neurodegenerative disorder. Unli... Read more
Scientists hope to borrow strategy from simpler animals to repair damaged spinal cord nerves in humans. Frogs, dogs, whales, snails can all do it, but humans and primates can’t. Regrow nerve... Read more
Currently, no cure exists for Alzheimer’s disease, the devastating neurological disease affecting more than 5 million Americans. But scientists are now reporting new progress on a set of com... Read more
A new study from the Gladstone Institutes has revealed a way to alleviate the learning and memory deficits caused by apoE4, the most important genetic risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease, im... Read more
A huge international medical trial could be a gamechanger for millions of people at risk of getting Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers at 60 sites in the United States, Canada and Austra... Read more
University of Adelaide researchers have discovered that stem cells taken from teeth can grow to resemble brain cells, suggesting they could one day be used in the brain as a therapy for stro... Read more
A new way to artificially control muscles using light, with the potential to restore function to muscles paralysed by conditions such as motor neuron disease and spinal cord injury, has been... Read more
A possible new therapeutic approach to managing autism New research in mice suggests that autism is characterized by reduced activity of inhibitory neurons and increased activity of excitato... Read more
New routes to the treatment of neurological diseases, including chronic pain and certain types of visual impairment Photoreactive compounds developed by LMU scientists directly modulate nerv... Read more
The new screening method used by the scientists has the potential to search millions of different spider toxins for safe pain-killing drugs and therapies Screening more than 100 spider toxin... Read more
