Nivedita Pujari, a postdoctoral researcher at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, studies how herpes simplex virus uses ...

When we learn a new skill, the brain has to decide—cell by cell—what to change. New research from MIT suggests it can do that ...

Japan has approved two stem cell-based therapies for treating Parkinson's disease and heart failure in a world first, through ...

Tiny plastic particles may be quietly threatening brain health. New research suggests microplastics—now widely found in food, ...

Scientists are working hard to find better ways to treat Alzheimer’s disease, one of the most common causes of memory loss and dementia around the world. A new study from researchers at the University ...

Keros Therapeutics will use the Massachusetts General Hospital MyMatch program to design a clinical trial testing rinvatercept for ALS.

It's long been assumed that for an organism to learn, remember or draw conclusions, it needs a brain. But mounting evidence, including a recent Cognitive Science study, challenges that assumption, ...

A new study from Scripps Research reveals how a key touch-sensing protein detects mechanical forces with remarkable precision. Each time something lightly presses against your skin, specialized sensor ...

A new King’s College London study finds a cancer drug may reverse brain connectivity changes linked to early Alzheimer’s ...

Scientists want to redesign psychedelics so that they don’t induce a trip—but they still improve mental health.

A study in mice concluded that memory problems associated with age may be driven by our gut microbiome and that the vagus nerve may be key to reversing it.