Cancer and Alzheimer's are two of the most common chronic diseases associated with aging. For years, doctors have known about ...

Researchers at Leipzig University and TU Dresden have succeeded in developing biological switches that can selectively turn ion channels on and off using light pulses. Initial applications show that ...

A hidden communication network between brain cells and glioblastoma tumors may be key to slowing this aggressive cancer.

Researchers at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine), have found that a key ...

For a long time, neuroscientists treated this forgetting as a cognitive glitch or a simple lack of brainware maturity. But a ...

A new University of Manchester and Edinburgh study published in the journal Brain, Behavior and Immunity has found that people who have had a stroke have fewer of a specific type of immune cell called ...

A new University of Manchester and Edinburgh study published in the journal Brain, Behavior and Immunity has found that ...

Increasing activity in a deep-brain region can boost the immune system’s response to vaccines—and people can be trained to do ...

Increasing activity in a deep-brain region can boost the immune system’s response to vaccines —and people can be trained to ...

New large-scale international research shows that the relationship between changes in the brain and memory does not follow a ...

For decades, dopamine has been celebrated in neuroscience as the quintessential "reward molecule"—a chemical herald of ...

New research has identified that neuroinflammation driven by microglia (immune cells in the brain) is a primary underlying ...