Researchers have identified chronic wasting disease (CWD) prions in raw, cooked, and cured meat from an infected elk in Texas ...

Scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, McLean Hospital in Massachusetts and Harvard Medical School studied brain tissue donated by 53 people with Huntington’s and 50 without it ...

Scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, McLean Hospital in Massachusetts and Harvard Medical School studied brain tissue donated by 53 people with Huntington’s and 50 without it ...

Scientists are unraveling the mystery of what triggers Huntington’s disease, a devastating hereditary disorder that strikes in the prime of life Scientists are unraveling the mystery of what ...

If you’re well rested, your brain will be able to quickly suppress the negative memory. But if you are someone who is plagued by insomnia, then intrusive thoughts about what happened—and the ...

Papua New Guinea has been rocked by 'horrific acts of cannibalism' with a bow and arrow-wielding gang seen posing with hacked off body parts. In grisly photos published Monday on the front page of ...

Of particular concern is the connection between head injuries and neurodegenerative diseases such as chronic traumatic encephalopathy ... in lab models of brain tissue-amyloid plaques, neuronal ...

“Neuralink’s strategy requires implantation into the cerebral cortex, which can cause damage to brain tissue,” said Tao Hu, founder and chief scientist at NeuroXess. “Our approach involves ...

The idea has remained controversial, given the difficulty of obtaining healthy, uncontaminated human brain tissue that could be used to study possible microbial inhabitants. Recently, a study ...