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New research identified 17 modifiable risk factors that can impact a person's risk of dementia, stroke, and depression.

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Capitalizing on the flexibility of tiny cells inside the body's smallest blood vessels may be a powerful spinal cord repair strategy, new research suggests.

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Neural stem cells (NSCs) possess pluripotent characteristics, proliferative capacity, and the ability to self-renew. In the context of neurological diseases, transplantation of NSCs has been shown to ...

But there’s a new emerging treatment of “neural grafts” that offers a more direct approach by aiming to replace the damaged brain cells themselves. In fact, significant clinical trials are ...

A team of researchers from more than ten laboratories in Europe, Asia and North America examined newly identified cells in mice called peripheral neural stem cells. These cells share important ...

For decades, scientists assumed that neural stem cells (NSCs) only occur in the brain and spinal cord. A new international study, led by Hans Schöler of the Max Planck Institute for Molecular ...

A team of researchers from more than ten laboratories in Europe, Asia and North America examined newly identified cells in mice called peripheral neural stem cells. These cells share important ...