Donald Weaver, a professor of neurology and physician at the University of Toronto in Canada, said he had long questioned why ...

Imagine your brain as a high-end restaurant. Normally, the kitchen is remarkably efficient: fresh ingredients (proteins) ...

Researchers have found that a natural aging-related molecule can repair key memory processes affected by Alzheimer’s disease.

Why some memories persist while others vanish has fascinated scientists for more than a century. Now, new research from the ...

Microglia are the brain's immune cells that clean out debris, such as damaged proteins and old cell parts, to keep the organ ...

Every time a cell divides, it must copy its entire genome so that each daughter cell inherits a complete set of DNA. During ...

Transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTR) is a rare, progressive and highly aggressive degenerative disease. It is caused by the ...

An international study co-led by researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Helmholtz Munich in Germany has ...