The vagus nerve does it all—tells your lungs to breathe, controls your heart rate, and even forms the foundation for a whole ...

Interrupting signals exchanged between tumors and the nervous system could become a critical pillar of cancer care ...

There is a nervous calm in the foreign exchange market. The Federal Reserve indicated that the relatively good economic performance allow is to bide its time for the economic and policy picture to ...

Neurons are cells in the body that are responsible for transmitting electrical signals through the nervous system. Different types of neurons affect the ability to move, which begins as an impulse, or ...

Exercise has also been found to enhance white matter structures in the brain (tissue responsible for passing messages throughout the nervous system), and improve neuroplasticity – which is the brain’s ...

or peripheral nervous system. During the pathogenesis of Parkinson’s disease (PD), α-synuclein pathology may originate in peripheral organs and spread to the CNS. Using human tissue samples and ...

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Researchers have developed a way of bioprinting tissues that change shape as a result of cell-generated forces, in the same way that it happens in biological tissues during organ development.

The nervous system is the body’s direct communication system. It’s made up of the body’s many nerve cells. These cells work together in a network that sends and receives signals from one ...

Brain parasites, those that infect the central nervous system which includes the brain ... Ingesting the eggs leads to tapeworm larvae growing in many different human tissues, particularly brain and ...

Yet, as effective as it is, it often causes unwanted damage to neighboring healthy tissues—which can lead ... for children with brain and central nervous system tumors—as their developing ...