Unlike the brain and spinal cord, peripheral nerve cells, whose long extensions reach the skin and internal organs, are ...

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

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

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

An iPSC-based ALS-on-a-chip model that mimics disease progression and reveals altered glutamate signaling in motor neurons ...

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

D bioprinted nerve tissues offer new hope for ALS drug testing. Uppsala team creates motor neuron organoids from patient cells.

A new study published in Science has found that neurons in the brain do not follow a single strategy when learning. Instead, different parts of the same neuron—its upper and lower branches—adjust ...

These sensor zebrafish can serve as powerful tools to study motor neuron apoptosis in vivo. Introduction Programmed cell death or apoptosis is a dynamic process that occurs in most tissues in live ...

A coil placed over Carmen's head showed doctors and researchers what's happening inside her body. VIDEO ABOVE: UPMC trial offers hope for patients with rare, genetic disorder ...

Neuron structure. Neurons are the basic structural and functional units of the nervous system, responsible for transmitting information in the form of electrical and chemical signals. It contains Soma ...

Motor neurons are nerve cells in your brain and spinal cord that control movement. They tell your muscles to squeeze (or "contract") so you can walk, talk, and move your body.