A Brazilian businessman founded a nonprofit organization dedicated to fighting medulloblastoma, in the hopes of not just ...

Maintaining the heart’s connection to the vagus nerve may be a key defense against cardiac aging. Researchers showed that restoring this nerve pathway can protect heart cells and preserve heart ...

Scientists are testing a strikingly simple idea for calming some of the brain’s most stubborn seizures: remove the aging ...

A microscopic flaw in the brain’s cellular scaffolding can shape brain size for life.

For over a century, Alzheimer's disease (AD) has been considered irreversible. Consequently, research has focused on disease ...

For more than a century, neuroscience textbooks have treated damaged neurons in the adult central nervous system as a dead end, especially in the delicate circuitry that carries visual information ...

The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is the body’s most vital line of defense and, at the same time, is also one of modern ...

After injury, the visual system can recover by growing new neural connections rather than replacing lost cells. Researchers ...

The humble planarian flatworm can regrow its brain. Here’s how this tiny animal will have you rethinking everything you ...

Researchers at the University of Sydney have identified how a fertility gene, PRDM9, enables drug-tolerant persister cells in ...

Research by University of Sydney scientists has uncovered a mechanism that may explain why glioblastoma returns after ...

A recently approved antibody drug from Regeneron Pharmaceuticals eradicates residual traces of multiple myeloma after initial ...