A cutting-edge immunotherapy could help kids fight — and even banish — brain tumors, the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in children. The new treatment falls under a category called T-cell ...

Four children with traditionally incurable brain cancers are still alive years after receiving an experimental immune-boosting cell therapy in a clinical trial. Three of them even display no evidence ...

What makes the human brain capable of language, imagination, mathematics and invention? For many years, the prevailing view was that the secret of human intelligence lay mainly in scale: the sheer ...

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Researchers have discovered that a microscopic skeleton inside neurons does much more than hold cells together. It acts as a gatekeeper that controls what brain cells absorb and when they absorb it.

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) affects millions of people worldwide every year and remains a major cause of long-term disability, cognitive decline, and neurological complications. Although neurons have ...

The biologist’s bold “energetic view of life” looks to the body’s strangest organelles as the link between cells, health, and mind and the foundation of our experience of being alive. It was 9 a.m. on ...

Four children diagnosed with one of the deadliest brain cancers known to medicine – a tumor type where fewer than one in a hundred patients survives five years – are alive today with no evidence of ...

To help cure Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia, we need to understand the mechanisms through which it damages the brain – including how the toxic build-up of proteins inside neurons ...

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