Imagine you are walking through an alpine forest on a beautiful fall day, passing a stand of aspen trees with their thin trunks forming a vertical grid before a brilliant […]
Targeting immune checkpoints — molecules that regulate the activity of the immune system — in microglia could reduce the inflammatory aspects of important neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease […]
Researchers in Australia have conducted the first population-based study of its kind and found that proton pump inhibitors (PPIs), a class of acid suppressants that many people take for heartburn, […]
We humans are top of the evolutionary tree, the most complex organisms that have ever lived on Earth in five billion years. Right? One way we might actually prove our […]
Certain environmental conditions may precipitate structural changes that take place in myelin sheaths in the onset of multiple sclerosis (MS), new Tel Aviv University research indicates. Myelin sheaths are the […]
The evolution of a big brain has been of long-standing interest due to its relationship to the origin of humans and its association with complex cognition (Darwin, 1874). Primates have […]
“This is when I start feeling my age,” says Anne Corcoran. She’s a scientist at the Babraham Institute, a human biology research centre in Cambridge, UK. Corcoran leads a group […]
The earliest stages of the brain degeneration associated with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) are linked to neuropsychiatric symptoms including anxiety, depression, loss of appetite, and sleep disturbances, a study from UC […]
