A team of researchers from Korea University College of Medicine, the University of California and the Buck Institute for Research on Aging reports that transfusing young mice with blood from older mice makes them grow fatigued ...
Blocking the activity of a single protein in old mice for one month restores mass and strength to the animals' withered muscles and helps them run longer on a treadmill, according to a study by researchers at the Stanford ...
Dec 10, 2020
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Several past studies have suggested that the magnetic fields created by phones, high-voltage power lines and other electrical equipment are harmful for humans.
Dec 9, 2014
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For several years, scientists have been pondering a question about a genetic disease called Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease type 2D: how can different types of mutations, spread out across a gene, produce the same condition?
Jul 4, 2011
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Ravindra Singh has spent years studying a gene that, when missing or mutated, causes spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a deadly disease that's among the most common genetic disorders in children. His team's latest work will ...
Mar 13, 2024
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Investigators from the laboratory of Alicia Guemez-Gamboa, Ph.D., assistant professor of neuroscience, have discovered new molecular mechanisms of PACS1 syndrome, a rare neurodevelopmental disorder, according to findings ...
Feb 6, 2024
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When the University of Delaware's Gregory Hicks started his research career two decades ago, he was one of only a few people in the United States studying chronic low back pain in people over 60 years old.
Dec 19, 2023
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In neuromuscular diseases, neurons and muscle cells stop communicating properly. Researchers led by Mina Gouti can now model this in 2D in a culture dish. Writing about their findings in Nature Communications, they say the ...
Dec 19, 2023
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A study by researchers and clinicians at the University of Eastern Finland and Helsinki University Hospital provides novel insight into the previously unknown effects of fibroblasts in regulating blood vessel formation in ...
Nov 7, 2023
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More cases of children born with abnormal brain development may have genetic explanations than previously thought, according to a recent study published in JAMA Neurology.
Aug 17, 2023
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