Experts have slammed claims that a popular diet trend endorsed by celebs could raise the risk of deadly motor neurone (MND) disease. The 5:2 method, made famous by much-loved TV diet guru and ...

Drugs that increase vitamin A in the body could help stave off deadly motor neurone disease (MND), promising new research has suggested. Scientists in Scotland discovered the medications ...

The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved the first treatment for Niemann-Pick disease, type C, the culmination of years of advocacy and stutter-start drug development efforts in the ...

A molecular biologist has warned of the dangers of the 5:2 fasting diet after developing motor neurone disease. Dr Vivienne Cox, who worked at two leading pharmaceutical companies and co-founded ...

They say their "mini-brain" can sense and respond to its environment. Writing in the journal Neuron, Dr Brett Kagan, of the company Cortical Labs, claims to have created the first ''sentient'' lab ...

Lucy Lintott Smith defied the odds when her third baby was born a decade after her MND diagnosis. Pauline McLeod says her husband Ian was left with "no quality of life" in his final weeks ...

In some circumstances, however, remyelination fails, leaving axons and even the entire neuron vulnerable to degeneration. Thus, patients with demyelinating diseases suffer from various ...

Receptor in the skin detects a stimulus (the change in temperature). Sensory neuron sends electrical impulses to a relay neuron, which is located in the spinal cord of the CNS. Relay neurons ...

Fresh concerns have been raised over the safety of contact sports after experts uncovered evidence that young rugby players ...

Calgary e-scooter users will be the first in Canada to get access to Neuron Mobility's new N4 model, which includes a larger dashboard and a phone holder. The company says its new e-scooter is its ...

Motor neurone disease (MND) is a group of diseases with multiple causes, rather than a single disease with a single target. This is likely to have major implications for potential MND therapies. We ...

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