A new study provides solutions to the pressing need to identify factors that influence Alzheimer's disease (AD) risk or resistance while providing an avenue to explore potential biological markers and ...

What your ear features reveal about heart health risks. Discover how subtle ear characteristics might indicate potential cardiovascular issues.

A new study has identified the protein hnRNP A1 as a key player in the production and maintenance of myelin, the fatty sheath ...

A study published in The American Journal of Human Genetics by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and the Jan and Dan ...

Cleft lip and cleft palate are among the most common birth defects, occurring in about one in 1,050 births in the United States.

A new study published in the Journal of Affective Disorders has identified a two-way relationship between ...

Scientists have identified a previously unknown type of neural stem cell (pNSC) that exists outside the brain and spinal cord ...

A new study reveals that maternal inflammation during pregnancy can permanently alter fetal brain development, leading to ...

Distribution of Ranvier nodes along myelinated axons is a critical determinant of conduction velocity, significantly influencing spike arrival timing and hence neural circuit function. The patterns of ...

The data convincingly show that the transcription factor Sp1 regulates ephrin-mediated axon guidance in the spinal cord. Although the authors show that Sp1 and its co-activators p300 and CBP are ...

Researchers have created the largest and most detailed wiring diagram of a mammalian brain to date, by mapping cells in a ...