Some serious brain disorders begin with symptoms that are easy to misinterpret. A person may become confused, forgetful or ...

A microscopic parasite that quietly settles into the brain of humans and animals is not nearly as quiet as scientists once ...

For more than a century, Alzheimer’s disease has been framed as a slow catastrophe that begins inside the brain and stays ...

Researchers use cryo-EM and optical tweezers to investigate how an antiviral interacts with the herpes simplex virus.

Pengfei Song is part of a team led by the University of Alberta, which has received an ARPA-H award to create high-resolution ...

A Dartmouth study published in Nature Communications reveals that immune cells in the brain use a surprising two-step process ...

Scientists are developing a "sponge" that can soak up pain signals in the body before they reach the brain, potentially ...

Scientists have found that blocking microglia (specialist immune cells in the brain) prevents infant forgetting ("infantile ...

Findings could create new opportunities to treat and study neurodegenerative diseasesScientists discovered that sugar ...

New evidence shows that precursors of myelin-producing cells — one of the few #brain cell types that continue to be produced ...

With a so-called cryo plasma-FIB (Plasma Focused Ion Beam) scanning electron microscope with nanomanipulator, Goethe University in Frankfurt (Germany) is expanding its research infrastructure with a ...