Researchers are shining a light on cancer cells' energy centers—literally—to damage these power sources and trigger ...

Researchers found that the nuclei from brain cells of patients with Alzheimer's disease contained tunnels (arrows) not found in normal brain cells. Image courtesy of Bess Frost, Ph.D., assistant ...

Oscar-winning actor Jamie Foxx has revealed he suffered a “near-death experience” in 2023 due to a brain bleed and stroke ...

Reperfusion technologies that can reanimate human brains are raising the possibility that death could be a reversible ...

About one in nine US adults over 65 has Alzheimer's, a disease characterized by the development of amyloid-beta plaques, tau tangles, and brain cell death. The chain of events that lead to the ...

A compound seems to stop prions from killing brain cells in mice. Prion diseases cause a buildup of toxic proteins inside these brain cells, which is similar to how other brain diseases ...

Over time, this disruption may lead to cell death and Alzheimer’s symptoms. The abnormal buildup of another protein called tau may also contribute to brain neurodegeneration. In normal brain ...

Animal imaging studies also confirmed the effects of the gene therapy were limited to cancer tissue and were undetectable in ...

Rats subjected to recurrent moderate hypoglycemia had 62–74% less brain cell death and were protected from most of these cognitive disturbances. Conclusions Antecedent recurrent moderate ...