A preventative anti-aging therapy seems like wishful thinking. Yet a new study led by Dr. Corina Amor Vegas at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory describes a treatment that brings the dream to life—at ...

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For millions of adults worldwide, nerve pain feels like a constant, inescapable electric shock. Standard medications often ...

For decades, Alzheimer’s disease has been like an unbreakable fortress. Scientists have tried everything to chip away at the sticky clumps of beta-amyloid proteins that build up in the brain — a toxic ...

A new nanotechnology treatment reversed Alzheimer’s symptoms in mice by restoring the brain’s natural cleanup system. The specially engineered nanoparticles helped clear toxic amyloid proteins from ...

A team of chemists, polymer scientists and drug delivery specialists at Zhejiang University, working with a pair of colleagues from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has developed a ...

Injecting a fatty acid that is used to make very long fat molecules into the eyes of elderly mice improved their vision for up to a month, indicating that the natural compound could potentially be ...

Rat cells grown inside the brains of mice with no sense of smell have allowed them to gain the ability. This is the first time that an organism of one species has experienced the world through the ...