The UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester announced Thursday it received a $35 million gift that aims to advance research to ...

Getting a cold or the flu can have severe consequences for columnist Kristin Neva's husband, who is living with ALS.

A team of researchers from the Sant Pau Research Institute (IR Sant Pau) has published a study in the Journal of ...

LEXINGTON, Mass. - Voyager Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:VYGR), a biotechnology firm focused on neurogenetic medicines with a market capitalization of $290 million, announced today it is reassessing its ...

Company to assess alternate payloads; no changes planned to novel capsid component - - Resulting shift of timeline and costs extends cash ...

The nervous system is a complex network of neurons and cells that carry messages to and from the brain and spinal cord to various parts of the body. Understanding the neural circuits that drive ...

Boosting communication between the spinal nerves and the muscles using the spinal cord stimulation reverses spinal muscle atrophy (SMA) progression and could be applied to other motoneuron diseases, ...

A 3D model accurately mimicking the blood-brain barrier (BBB) in a laboratory environment has been successfully developed by ...

ALS is an incurable nervous system disease that causes the loss of muscle control. A research team at the University of ...

Exercise, reading, healthy eating, and managing stress can all help lower your chance of neurodegenerative diseases like ALS.