Researchers have described the neurodegeneration that occurs in the nervous system of the bowel in Batten disease, a rare and fatal genetic condition. In their latest study, a team showed that gene ...

Study explains long-standing question of why Huntington’s disease symptoms typically do not appear until midlife even though patients are born with the mutation. Analyses reveal that the repeated DNA ...

Researchers have uncovered novel insights into how brain function disruptions related to cerebrovascular disease (CeVD) interact with Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology to impact neurodegeneration and ...

In the coming year, regulatory authorities in the US are expected to approve a pig gene-edited to make it resistant to a common and devastating disease. That approval could open the door to a much ...

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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a debilitating neurodegenerative ... carried out a study aimed at further exploring the documented association between tau proteins and EVs using advanced experimental ...

The gene therapy is supported by positive 24-month safety and efficacy data presented at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology 2024 meeting. “This rare pediatric disease ...

The disease has infected mainly women and children, resulting in 143 deaths. A deadly flu-like disease that has claimed the lives of more than 143 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

Now, an international team of researchers says it has uncovered a “direct link” between autism and a gene known to play a role in brain development. An international team of researchers says ...