A new, more life-like physical model of microscopic nerve fibers called axons could speed up the discovery of medicines for ...

A new, lifelike model of nerve fibers may serve as a platform to screen for experimental treatments that can promote myelin ...

The genetic mutation that enables yaks to live in environments with much less oxygen, and may hold the key to repairing nerve damage ...

In adults, damage to myelin is a hallmark of MS. In this condition, the immune system mistakenly attacks and destroys the ...

These pillars are composed of polyacrylamide hydrogel, a material whose stiffness can be adjusted to match the ~5 kPa ...

Scientists hunting for treatments and cures for multiple sclerosis may have found an unlikely ally — the yak. The high-altitude, cold-hardy relative of the cow could be the key to a medical ...

Christina Applegate says she has already purchased land to use for a burial plot. To some, this choice may seem a bit morbid, ...

New evidence of myelin's essential role in learning and retaining new practical skills, such as playing a musical instrument, has been uncovered by research. Myelin is a fatty substance produced by ...

In long-lived animals, renewed but thin myelin sheaths are enough to restore the impaired nervous system and can do so for years after the onset of disease, scientists have discovered. In the central ...

Multiple sclerosis is a condition whereby the immune system attacks and destroys myelin – the protective coating of nerve fibers – which triggers movement problems characteristic of the disease. Now, ...

The study covered in this summary was published in medRxiv.org as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed. Tau protein levels are lower in more highly myelinated cortical regions. Tau spreading ...