A report in Nature Medicine sheds new light on astrocyte-mediated toxicity, which is thought to be an important contributor to motor neuron death in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The study ...

Princeton University researchers found that proteins in the MHCI, or major histocompatibility complex class I, family may contribute to fine-tuning a person's motor control as they grow -- and also ...

When it comes to the brain, "more is better" seems like an obvious assumption. But in the case of synapses, which are the connections between brain cells, too many or too few can both disrupt brain ...