The vagus nerve does it all—tells your lungs to breathe, controls your heart rate, and even forms the foundation for a whole ...

Liver issues, including a buildup of fat in the liver, occur before the onset of neuromuscular disease, per a study in a mouse model of SMA.

Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have identified a potential breakthrough in the fight ...

Rare diseases have become an attractive target for pharmaceutical companies both in Australia and internationally with ...

AI-generated voice clones are bringing back the voices of people with MND, allowing some to communicate, connect, and even ...

A new electrical stimulation therapy for spinal muscle atrophy (SMA) has shown promise in reactivating motor neurons and ...

Sam Perkins was a keen triathlete and much of his fundraising was sports based A campaigner and fundraiser for research into motor neurone disease (MND) has died, his family have said. Sam Perkins ...

An increase in high-fat, high-fructose foods in people's diets has contributed to a dramatic increase in type 2 diabetes.

Using a novel deep learning approach, we evaluated the predictive power of the functional connectome during various states (resting state, movie-watching, and n-back) on episodic memory and working ...

New research shows that a network of subcellular structures similar to those responsible for propagating molecular signals that make muscles contract are also responsible for transmitting signals in ...