In the complex world of neuroscience, Huntington's disease remains a cruel mystery. It slowly strips away a person’s ability ...

The results of experiments in mice models were "astounding," said biochemist Suzanne Pfeffer of Stanford University.

Neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s affect millions of people and are becoming more common as the ...

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Many people with IBD, an umbrella term that includes ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, have a reduced quality of life, ...

Putting the brakes on an enzyme might rescue neurons that are dying due to a type of Parkinson's disease that's caused by a single genetic mutation, according to a new Stanford Medicine-led study ...

For the past 30 years, scientists have been on a mission to unlock the secrets of how plants defend themselves. That journey ...

Brown University biologists found that when a protein called AIMP3 was removed from heart cells in mice, it led to severe ...

A new study shows that cells in atherosclerotic blood vessels grow in a way that resembles tumor development. This finding ...

A recent study by researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) has uncovered a crucial link that may explain ...

In one of the first major tests of the new FDA leadership’s regulatory philosophy toward gene therapies for rare diseases, ...