Motor neuron diseases are uncommon, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also often called "Lou Gehrig's disease" is the most well-known motor neuron disease. There are several other types of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In both, the kitchen becomes the scene for battle — between the generations, between the sexes, between ...

At last, a massive international team of researchers has mapped in exquisite detail every neuron in the brain of an adult animal with eyes and legs. The nifty noggin, which anyone can now freely ...

Herein, then, lies the main question: what role do international organizations have in a unipolar world? The message now is that the United States will do whatever it wants. Never mind what the ...

Brunet described it as “a hopeful finding,” suggesting that it could lead to the development of pharmaceutical or genetic therapies to stimulate new neuron growth in aged or injured brains. Perhaps ...

The first wiring diagram of every neuron in an adult brain and the 50 million connections between them has been produced for a fruit fly. The diagram of all 139,255 neurons in the adult fly brain ...

Scientists have recently completed the most ambitious effort yet to construct such a map: a complete document of every neuron and every connection in the brain of an adult fruit fly. The research ...

The first wiring diagram of every neuron in an adult brain and the 50 million connections between them has been produced for a fruit fly. This landmark achievement has been conducted by a large ...

Brain wiring diagrams are a first step towards understanding everything we’re interested in – how we control our movement, answer the telephone, or recognise a friend.

The Tony and Grammy Award-winning actor suffered from a rare form of cancer known as metastatic melanotic peripheral nerve sheath sarcoma. The star was diagnosed in July 2024, and despite aggressive ...

The team that first recorded vagus nerve signals in humans has isolated the electrical activity of individual neurones responsible for cardiovascular regulation. Published in The Journal of Physiology ...