About 3 million people in the United States have glaucoma, and it's the second leading cause of blindness worldwide, ...

Multiple sclerosis, a neuroinflammatory disease that affects nearly 3 million people worldwide, causes a loss of myelin, the ...

Model developed in study will pave way for more discovery about important but mysterious process Ben Emery, Ph.D., and ...

The nerve agent Novichok, which was identified by the Government’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, caused Ms ...

Researchers identified 16 distinct types of nerve cells involved in human touch and compared them with those in mice and ...

No less than 16 different types of nerve cells have been identified by scientists in a new study on the human sense of touch.

The loss of myelin, combined with ongoing inflammation, causes dysfunction and death of nerve cells, making the disability ...

The biggest difference the researchers found was in very rapidly conducting pain-sensing nerve cells that react to ...

Glaucoma is a group of eye diseases that cause slow, progressive damage to the optic nerve in the back of the eye, says Schultz. This growing damage is due to unsafe fluid buildup that causes pressure ...

Studies support the idea of “polymers as therapeutics,” rather than polymers as carriers of drug molecules in the sense of ...

Alzheimer's disease is characterized by a progressive loss of nerve cells leading to a decline in memory and cognition.

Lack of compatibility is the top reason for new couples to divorce, with 59% of couples who divorced in their first year citing this cause. A total of 689,308 divorces occurred in 2021 and ...