Researchers have recreated the human ascending sensory pathway in a lab dish, using organoids that model the key brain and ...

Capitalizing on the flexibility of tiny cells inside the body's smallest blood vessels may be a powerful spinal cord repair strategy, new research suggests.

Humans and other animal species can experience many types of pain throughout the course of their lives, varying in intensity, ...

An estimated 18,000 people in the United States annually suffer from new injuries to their spinal cords. Unfortunately for ...

A major neuroscience milestone has been achieved that may one day help patients with paralysis, neurological disorders, brain, and spinal cord injuries, and more. A new peer-reviewed study at the ...

The detection of peripheral neural stem cells could transform the treatment of Parkinson's disease and spinal cord injuries ...

For example, Ming's own lab has developed a model of a human neural tube, the structure in an embryo that eventually becomes into a baby's brain and spinal cord. Her goal is to understand how ...

Meningitis is an inflammation of the fluid and three membranes (meninges) surrounding your brain and spinal cord. The symptoms ... or hide out on food that a human then eats.

These cells share important molecular and functional characteristics with neural stem cells of the brain. Peripheral neural stem cells ... to treat diseases such as Parkinson's disease, spinal cord ...