In a nutshell Scientists used magnetic brain stimulation to restore damaged connections in mice with Alzheimer’s-like ...

How does the brain store knowledge so that you actually remember what you have learned the next day or even later? To find ...

A team of researchers at Rowan University has developed an injectable biomaterial that could significantly improve recovery ...

A recent study involving researchers from the University of Basel reveals that slowing down the intracellular transport of ...

New treatment approaches: Their work opens up new possibilities for treatments that specifically target the neural environment of tumors. Prize details: The prize, worth €60,000, will be awarded on ...

The immunological synapse formed between a natural killer cell and its target cell facilitates the coordinated and directional delivery of lytic granules to the cell–cell interface. Jordan ...

One in 300 of us will develop motor neurone disease in our lifetime. It is a hideous disease that robs a person of their dignity and eventually their life.

Researchers at the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) have shown how a minimal change in a single ion channel ...

Researchers at the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) and the Göttingen Cluster of Excellence "Multiscale Bioimaging" (MBExC) have shown how a minimal change in a single ion channel increases ...

This is a valuable and rigorous study that addresses the question of what determines the spatial organization of endocytic zones at synapses. The authors use compelling approaches, in both Drosophila ...

The herb rosemary has been linked with memory—now researchers turned the compound against Alzheimer’s disease and cognitive ...

The synaptic ribbon is an electron-dense structure found in hair cells and photoreceptors. The ribbon is surrounded by neurotransmitter-filled vesicles and considered to play a role in vesicle release ...