Your peripheral nervous system (PNS) is crucial to navigating daily life. It lets you walk, controls your eye movements, and rings your brain’s alarms when you step on a Lego brick. Yet researchers ...

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have identified a type of enzyme with a complicated name. Cell migration inducing and hyaluronan-binding protein (CEMIP) is associated with disorders ...

A non-opioid designer molecule for treating chronic neuropathic pain by calming hyperactive pain-sensing neurons in the peripheral nervous system has had promising results in a preclinical study ...

Your brain gets all the glory while your other nervous system, the Peripheral Nervous System (PNS) toils away in thankless obscurity. What’s the PNS? Oh, merely the neurons that live outside of your ...

ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hesperos, a leader in recreating human biology with its’ Human-on-a-Chip ® platform, has announced a breakthrough development of a human induced pluripotent stem cell ...

Salk researchers report they have discovered a protein called Mitf that mediates the repair function in the peripheral nervous systems of mice. The protein Mitf helps turn on the repair function of ...

Medically reviewed by Michael Menna, DO Key Takeaways The circulatory system carries oxygen and nutrients throughout the body and removes waste.The lymphatic system helps fight disease by creating and ...

Glial cells are an integral part of the human nervous system. They help support and nourish nerve cells, or neurons. Several types of glial cells exist. Glial cells are the “glue” of the nervous ...

A review on autoimmune neurological diseases reveals what occurs in our body when the immune system, by mistake, produces antibodies that target a protein essential ...