A new medicine, discovered by scientists, protects nerve cells damaged by motor neurone disease (MND), offering hope of substantially slowing the progression of "one of the cruellest diseases".

The Nature Index 2024 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

Adopting some of the strategies behind successfully treating the childhood disease spinal muscular atrophy may enable development of therapies to curb the muscle decline that accompanies aging, new ...

Air pollution was associated with risk for developing motor neuron disease such as ALS and likely contributes to an ...

A study focused on two common types of outdoor pollutants widely linked to health harms: nitrogen dioxide and particulate ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Interim results also showed reduction of the neurodegenerative biomarker neurofilament light chain. Serious ...

Researchers have developed a way to grow a highly specialized subset of brain nerve cells that are involved in motor neuron ...

A research team has developed a way to produce a subset of highly specialised brain neurons that centrally degenerate in motor neuron disease and are damaged in spinal cord injury, laying foundations ...

Motor neurons are some of the largest cells in the human body. In particular, upper neurons—extending from the cerebral cortex to the brain stem or spinal cord—average 60μm in diameter. 3,4 These ...

Some patients with later-onset spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) type 2 and type 3 had improved motor function when the investigational monoclonal antibody apitegromab was added to their treatment, the ...