The Roskamp Institute announced today its participation in a pharmaceutical sponsored research study for relapsing-remitting Multiple Sclerosis (MS) sufferers. While the Roskamp Institute's primary focus is on Alzheimer's disease, Roskamp...
Avicena Group, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: AVGO), a late stage biotechnology company focused on commercializing its proprietary cellular energy modulation technology, announced today that the company has signed an agreement with the National...
The Allen Institute for Brain Science, a non-profit medical research organization founded by investor and philanthropist Paul G. Allen and Jody Allen Patton, today announced a series of key findings that shed light on the structural and ce...
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine have identified a genetic regulator of brain development that sheds light on how immature neural cells choose between proliferation and differentiation. D...
Why do we forget? Do memories decay on their own, or are they harmed by interference from similar memories? Using a technique called "transcranial magnetic stimulation" (TMS), brain researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison may ha...
The ebb and flow of such autoimmune diseases as multiple sclerosis, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis has long been a perplexing mystery. But findings from the Stanford University School of Medicine bring scientists closer to solving the...
Researchers at Edinburgh, St Andrew's and Bristol Universities in the UK have found that a protein linked to Alzheimer's in humans also builds up in the brain cells of aged cats who suffer from the same symptoms. Post mortems on cats who h...
Dr. Pierre Drapeau, a researcher funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and professor and chairman of Pathology and Cell Biology at the Universite de Montreal, has been named the 2006 recipient of the Barbara Turnbull...
Brain cells derived from human embryonic stem cells improved the condition of rats with Parkinson's-like symptoms dramatically, but the treatment caused a significant problem - the appearance of brain tumors - that scientists are now worki...
A 20-year study of Danish cell phone users shows short or long term use of cell phones is not linked to increased risk of brain cancer. The study conducted by the Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark...
On July 13, 2009, the Journal of Cell Biology published a research article from t...
On October 10th, the Journal of Neuroscience published an article from ION entitl...