Brad G. Smith, an ALS patient, regains communication abilities with a Neuralink implant, illustrating the potential of brain-computer interfaces in aiding speech impairments.

Gene delivery systems can target specific brain cells, a breakthrough that could lead to treatments for Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases.

NIH-funded breakthrough could enable targeted therapies for many neurological disorders.

Research teams have created a versatile set of gene delivery systems that can reach different neural cell types in the human ...

Researchers have developed a new suite of genetic tools for cell-type specific targeting to battle brain disease.

Currently, the researchers are using CRISPR-TO to move endogenous RNAs – RNA molecules that are naturally produced within the ...

Scientists say they've put together a molecular toolkit that could be used to treat a variety of brain diseases, possibly ...

People with Williams Syndrome treat strangers as their new best friends. Now the condition is revealing clues to our ...

The disease is caused by mutations in the SMN1 gene, which produces a protein essential for motor neuron survival ... had hoped — to the brain and spinal cord and muscle cells — but ...

African spiny mouse. Image by Wikimedia commons ... this research could lead to combinatorial therapies that address multiple aspects of spinal cord injury simultaneously—promoting neuron survival, ...

These techniques allowed them to label specific neuron populations in the mouse spinal cord based on their activity while selectively activating or silencing these groups of neurons. Nocifensive ...