A new way to deliver disease-fighting proteins throughout the brain may improve the treatment of Alzheimer's disease and other neurological disorders, according to scientists. By engineering human ...

A new way to deliver disease-fighting proteins throughout the brain may improve the treatment of Alzheimer's disease and ...

The blood-brain barrier border protects the brain by regulating the flow of molecules, peptides, and cells, but it also keeps out many therapeutics. Now, researchers have harnessed the power of a ...

“Middle-aged adults really have been a neglected population,” says Robin Richardson, a social and psychiatric epidemiologist at Emory University in Atlanta. And that leaves them vulnerable to ...

Middle-aged people in the United States experience more loneliness than seniors, researchers reported Tuesday in the journal Aging and Mental Health. The Netherlands is the only other country ...

It's probably fair to say that video games age inherently worse than all other art forms, in large part because games are still an incredibly young type of media, whose technological innovation ...

By engineering human immune cells called microglia, the researchers have created living cellular “couriers” capable of responding to brain pathology and releasing therapeutic agents exactly where ...

Luminopia is now available to treat amblyopia in children aged 4 to 12 years old. Patients watch TV shows through a virtual reality headset, promoting use of the weaker eye. Editor’s note ...

Pope Francis has died on Easter Monday, aged 88, the Vatican announced. The head of the Catholic Church had recently survived being hospitalised with double pneumonia. Cardinal Kevin Farrell’s ...

Former child actor Sophie Nyweide has died, aged 24. Nyweide, who starred alongside Russell Crowe in Noah in 2014 and Jessica Alba in the 2010 movie An Invisible Sign, passed away on April 14.