Elizabeth Jonas first got interested in mitochondria by chance. In 1995, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Yale, working ...

New research sheds light on the mechanisms of degeneration in multiple sclerosis, suggesting that mitochondrial dysfunction may play a key role in the loss of neuronal Purkinje cells.

Initially, the breast cancer cells had only 2% of nerve cell mitochondria, but cancer cells that spread to the brain had a proportion of 14%.

University of Western Australia research reveals how cells convert physical exercise forces into energy production responses.

UC Riverside study may lead to new treatments for multiple sclerosis. Multiple sclerosis (MS) affects an estimated 2.3 ...

A groundbreaking study reveals that neurons can burn fat, challenging the long-held belief that the brain relies solely on glucose for fuel.

In the hippocampus, a critical brain region for learning and memory, new cells emerge in some people into late adulthood, ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and UCL have shown that genetic messages are misplaced in nerve cells in a model of Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia. These messages mostly ...

Antidepressants have strong impact on male brains — with the nature of the impact depending on the age of the subject — but ...