An increase in high-fat, high-fructose foods in people's diets has contributed to a dramatic increase in type 2 diabetes.

Kenai Therapeutics, a biotechnology company leveraging induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology to discover and develop a platform of off-the-s ...

Take a look around your home and you'll find yourself surrounded by familiar comforts—photos of family and friends on the ...

A retrospective analysis showed IV edaravone in participants with ALS was associated with fewer reported disease progression milestones and deaths than control.

The physiological power and biological value of brain-derived neurotrophic factor is so significant that it is often referred ...

A trial that will test a noninvasive device called MyoRegulator as a treatment for ALS was cleared to start enrolling ...

A new model of Alzheimer's disease has been proposed, which could speed up efforts to understand and cure the complex ...

A new electrical stimulation therapy for spinal muscle atrophy (SMA) has shown promise in reactivating motor neurons and ...

The new research reveals a novel mechanism for signal transmission in brain cells and helps answer an open question in neuroscience about how intracellular signals travel over long distances in ...

Researchers at Columbia University have discovered a unique group of neurons in the mouse brain that command the animal to ...

New research reveals that brain cells use a muscle-like signaling mechanism to relay information over long distances.

Though many feeding circuits in the brain are known to play a role in monitoring food intake, the neurons in those circuits do not make the final decision to cease eating a meal.  The neurons ...