Alzheimer’s has long been considered irreversible, but new research challenges that assumption. Scientists discovered that severe drops in the brain’s energy supply help drive the disease—and ...

Researchers at the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (NRI) at Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine recently made an important advance in neurodegenerative disease ...

Researchers have developed a gene-editing treatment for prion disease that extends lifespan by about 50 percent in a mouse model of the fatal neurodegenerative condition. The treatment, which uses ...

In recent months, the Food and Drug Administration and National Institutes of Health have announced new initiatives to reduce and replace animal testing in biomedical research. Central to these ...

In the wild, a mouse or rat leads a precarious life. In the city, they dodge traps, poisons, and broom-wielding humans. In the countryside, they face owls, shotguns, and more poison. As Australia’s ...

For more than a century, Alzheimer’s disease has been framed as irreversible. Once memory and thinking decline, recovery has ...

SEVILLE – It was fitting that the European Society of Gene and Cell Therapy (ESGCT) invited the noted Spanish stem cell biologist Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, PhD, to deliver the keynote address at ...

Researchers at the UNC School of Medicine and the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy have made a breakthrough that could ...

A groundbreaking study reveals that researchers successfully reversed Alzheimer's disease in mice, restoring memory and ...