A key step towards reducing the burden of central nervous system (CNS) disorders is the identification of disease-specific biomarkers that can help predict, monitor, and guide treatment development.

Biobots, whose growing line of variants started with xenobots, are fascinating tiny self-powered living robots built exclusively using frog embryonic cells. Originally developed in the laboratories of ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have developed a method that shows how the nervous system and sensory organs are formed in an embryo. By labeling stem cells with a genetic 'barcode', they have ...

Pancreatic cancer is one of the most dangerous and difficult cancers to treat. Doctors often struggle to detect it early because the disease usually causes few symptoms in the beginning. By the time ...

Many people are familiar with oncogenes - genes long known to be involved in cancers in humans, such as the gene "Src." What's less widely understood is that oncogenes didn't evolve just to cause ...

Scientists have visualised the early development of the nervous system in a chicken embryo. Minyoung Kim at the University of California, San Francisco, dissected the 2-day-old embryo out of its egg ...

A recent study published in Cell Reports highlights a new drug that could help to repair nervous system damage caused by ischemic strokes in animal models. The breakthrough preclinical study was ...

Your sympathetic nervous system is one of the branches of your autonomic nervous system. It controls functions under unconscious control related to “fight or flight.” Your nervous system plays a ...

In order for your body to work properly, your nervous system needs to be working properly. Your nervous system is responsible for helping your brain communicate with your body and helping your body ...

Foods rich in magnesium, omega-3s, probiotics, antioxidants, and more can help your nervous system function properly, ...