In a new study from Karolinska Institutet, published in Nature Neuroscience, researchers have identified the neurogenic ...

Dopamine neurons in the midbrain may, with aging, be increasingly susceptible to a vicious spiral of decline driven by fuel shortages, according to a study led by Weill Cornell Medicine (NY, USA) ...

Research findings are available online in the journal Nature Metabolism. The original story “ Sweating may naturally suppress ...

Researchers have identified the neurogenic progenitor that give rise to dopaminergic neurons, the primary neurons affected in Parkinson’s disease.

Scientists successfully borrow concepts from string theory to explain the network architecture of branching biological systems like neurons ...

Mirror neurons are a type of brain cell that is activated both when performing an action and when observing another individual perform that same action, a process thought to help an individual ...

ALBUQUERQUE, NM and MEMPHIS, TN – November 25, 2025 – Scientists have uncovered a surprising mechanism by which a brain enzyme called OTULIN controls the expression of tau, the protein that forms ...

For decades, most scientists treated the spinal cord as little more than a biological cable. The brain gave orders, the ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising mechanism by which a brain enzyme called OTULIN controls the expression of tau, the protein that forms toxic tangles in Alzheimer's disease. The findings, ...