The neurobiologist Erich Jarvis studies the few species capable of speech. He has long hoped to genetically engineer an ...

The findings point to the brain's own communication machinery unknowingly contributing to the spread of the disease.

A new study suggests a common brain protein may be enabling Alzheimer’s to spread between neurons through microscopic ...

Researchers at the University of Münster and Ruhr University Bochum have demonstrated for the first time in real time that the body's own defense cells use catecholamines—neurotransmitters such as ...

A common brain protein may be giving Alzheimer’s disease an unexpected way to spread, carrying toxic Tau proteins from ...

Aging changes gut bacteria in mice, weakening communication between the intestines and the brain. Restoring that connection ...

Researchers at ETH Zurich have identified a previously overlooked protein mechanism that drives mitochondrial failure in ...

According to the Cleveland Clinic, a quarter of cancer deaths can be attributed to one source: cachexia. Cachexia is a ...

Neuropeptides are brain and body signaling molecules that shape emotion, pain, metabolism, cognition, and immune function.

A common subtype of lung cancer was found to drive cachexia through nerve signaling involving PGE2. The discovery could lead ...